-- By the end of the lesson, students will be able to identify good vs bad etiquette to use online with 95% accuracy. 
--  By the end of the lesson, students will be able to put into use netiquette when interacting with others when using the internet for both academic and personal purposes with 95% accuracy. 
-- Students will be able to expand and properly use vocabulary concerning digital etiquette with 95% accuracy by the end of the lesson. 

Pre-Assessment:
-- Ask the students to define the word “Netiquette”.
-- Then show them a PowerPoint of examples of good and bad netiquette behavior. Pause at each example and ask the students to write their name on a piece of paper and, using pencil, write down whether they think the example is ‘good’ or ‘bad’ online behavior.
-- Once the PowerPoint is complete, tell the students to put their answers to the side because they will be addressed again at the end of the lesson.  

Lesson Steps:

1. First, the word “netiquette” needs to be defined and explained in clear terms so that students can begin to understand all that is umbrellaed by the term “Netiquette”.

2. To foster a greater understanding, have students work in pairs to come up times that they have experienced frustration or angry online, and what the reason for that may be. Was it because someone you interacted with wasn’t being aware of netiquette? Have them discuss what could be examples of good and bad netiquette.

3. Have the students share their thoughts with the rest of the class.

4. Pull of the “Digital Etiquette” video on Brain Pop and play it for the whole class. Stop at various checkpoints throughout the video to ask students questions as a way to help foster a deeper connection to the contents of the video. 

5. After the video, break the students into groups of 3-4. Then have them come up with their own list of Netiquette rules based off of the video and their own understanding of the term “netiquette”.

6. Call on each group to share out their lists, so that the classroom can create a master list of the rules of Netiquette. This list can be tacked to the classroom wall and will serve as a reminder of how the students are expected to act when online, both inside and out of the classroom. 

7. Then, with the students still in their groups, hand out examples (different from the ones on the power point) of good and bad netiquette. 
8. Instruct the students to write down reasons why they think an example is good or bad, and if they think it is bad netiquette, have them come up with ways to fix/change it into a good example of netiquette. 
9. The teacher will have a master copy of the examples that can be hung up on the white board/pulled up on the smartboard. Once all the groups have finished, ca on the class as a whole to help you sort the teacher examples into good and bad. 
10. Once sorted, call on individual students to share the reasons their group stated an example was good netiquette or the reasons their group said it was a bad example and the method they used to change it into a good one. 

Post-Assessment:
-- Ask for students to share with the class their own definition of the term “Netiquette”.
-- Ask the students to now reflect on their answers to the examples on the PowerPoint. Ask them to write down whether or not their opinions changed and why.
-- Have the students turn in the papers at the end of class.

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