Surf Safely!
Working in groups of three, you will view Real Life Stories from NetSmartz to research and record Internet safety rules. Each member of your group will have a role to play. Follow these directions to start the fun!

1. First review these Group Participation Rules.
   Assign roles for each member of your group. The oldest student in your group will be the Leader, the next oldest will be the Recorder, and the youngest will be the Keyboard Operator. Understand your roles before linking to Real Life Stories from NetSmartz.
   • Leader: Encourages and keeps the group working together while viewing Real Life Stories from NetSmartz. Leads the group in identifying specific Internet safety rules.
   • Recorder: Writes down the safety rules identified by the group while viewing the videos. Give your group 5 points for every rule on the list. You're not allowed to use the same rule twice.
   • Keyboard Operator and Mouse Controller: The only group member allowed to operate the computer.
   Click on over to Real Life Stories from NetSmartz!
2. How many points did your group score? Did your group have the highest number of points?

Think Critically!
What you see isn’t always what you get. You can be fooled by information on the Internet just as easily as you can by some of these optical illusions (Exploratorium’s Online Exhibits). After checking out a few illusions, move on to MUYOM and play Ten TechKnow Questions with a mystery Web site.

Let’s play Ten TechKnow Questions! (Hey, you’ll learn stuff like this: A cockroach can live a whole week without its head!) Open the Ten TechKnow Questions Popup in one window and load this mystery Web site in another window. Make the mystery Web site window larger than the Questions window. With both windows open on your screen, you and a partner will try to answer as many of the questions as possible, and then "Make Up Your Own Minds" about its credibility. In other words, do you accept the information on the site as being true or inspiring trust?