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Google Safety Tools – Google Safe Search

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Google builds tools and controls into our products that help you manage your online experience. One of these tools is Google Safe Search.

Google SafeSearch

SafeSearch is designed to filter sites that contain sexually explicit content and remove them from your search results. While no filter is 100% accurate, Google SafeSearch helps you avoid content you may prefer not to see or would rather your children did not stumble across.

By default, Moderate SafeSearch is turned on, which helps keep explicit images out of your search results. If you prefer you can change your setting to Strict filtering to help filter out explicit text as well as images. You can modify your computer’s SafeSearch settings by clicking on Search settings at the top right of the Google homepage.

SafeSearch Lock

If you’re worried about others changing the Strict SafeSearch setting without your knowledge, you can protect it with a password using SafeSearch Lock.

To use SafeSearch lock, click on Search settings in the upper right corner of the Google homepage. Choose “Strict Filtering” and then click “Lock SafeSearch.”

Once locked, the Google search results page will be visibly different to indicate that SafeSearch is locked:

Even from across the room, the colored balls give parents and teachers a clear visual cue that SafeSearch is still locked. And if you don’t see them, it’s quick and easy to verify and re-lock SafeSearch.

This YouTube video below shows you what to do:

CfE Levels, Early

Storybook – Lee and Kims Adventure … Animal Magic

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Lee and Kim’s Adventure… Animal Magic is an 8-minute cartoon from CEOP that tackles Issues surrounding Internet Safety and Responsible Use in an accessible format for younger children. It is particularly suitable to address some of the experiences and outcomes of Level One of the Curriculum for Excellence.

Storybook – Lee and Kims Adventure … Animal Magic is a supplementary resource to accompany the cartoon but aimed at younger children. It would be suitable for introducing some of the issues surrounding Internet Safety and Responsible Use with children in the early years.

There are two main learning objectives to this activity:

1) Encouraging ‘nice behaviour’ on the internet

This involves the teacher telling a story and a pre and post discussion.

Children can watch a cartoon of SID’s Song and this can be followed up by ‘SID’s Yes or No Game: Be Nice on the Internet’.

2) ‘Stranger Danger’ in the online world – Extension Activity

This activity relies on children having learned about Stranger Danger in the real world.

It extends this learning to the Internet; concentrating on the message of ‘not giving out your personal information’.

A brief introduction is followed by ‘SID‘s Yes or No Game: Protect your Secret Stuff’.

You can download the following resources to help with this activity from the CEOP Think U Know Teacher / Trainer area.