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Cookies and tracking: High school computers & making

Cookies, tracking and privacy. A free High school lesson plan with a hook, practice that links to free activities, and an exit ticket. Copy it and make it yours.

Lesson plan

Goal

  • Students work toward: cookies, tracking and privacy.

Hook (5 min)

  • Ask the class: what do you already know about cookies and tracking?
  • Take two or three answers and write them where everyone can see them.

Teach (15 min)

  • Say the big idea in one plain sentence: cookies and tracking.
  • Show one example, then one that is not an example, and ask how the two differ.
  • Have students tell a partner or a small group the idea in their own words.

Practise (20 min)

  • Choose one for the whole class or let groups pick:
  • Learn: Cookies and Tracking (https://peabody.kids/world/online/online-cookies-tracking)

Exit ticket (5 min)

  • On a slip or aloud: one thing I learned about cookies and tracking, and one question I still have.
  • Sort the slips into: got it, nearly, not yet. Start tomorrow with the last pile.

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