General Information:
App: Cloud Chaos (FREE)
Rights-Holder: NetSmartzKids
Publication Year/Version: 2019, Version 1.1
- The Cloud Chaos App is an interactive way for students to learn all about staying safe online. Students get to pick a character and then explore different worlds that teach them different things about online safety. Students collect coins and attempt challenges to get rid of bad things in the cyberworld. The app is very interactive and a very fun way for students to learn.
This link provides a short video that demonstrates what the app looks like for students.
Core Integration:
- This app can be integrated into a science lesson that talks about our five senses. You can start off by teaching students about our five senses and how they can protect us from danger. Then you can talk about how in any kind of online engagement it is difficult to use all five of our senses to detect any types of danger since it isn’t an environment that all of our senses can be activated in. You can then integrate the app that the students have used and ask them how they think the characters used the senses available to them to detect these dangers. By doing this, you are teaching students a science lesson about their senses but also relating it to how we cannot always use them in an online environment. This can lead into what senses we can use and different ways to stay safe in the online community.
Standards:
National Health Education Standards
NHES 1: Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.
- HBO4-Apply safety rules and procedures to avoid risky behaviors and injuries.
NHES 2: Students will analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on human behaviors.
- 5.6 Describe how relevant influences of media and technology affect personal safety and injury prevention practices and behaviors.
NHES 3: Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information and products and services to enhance health.
- 5.4 Demonstrate how to locate sources of accurate safety and inquiry prevention information.
NHES 5: Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision-making skills to enhance health.
- 5.3 Explain how family, culture, peers or media influence a decision related to safety and injury prevention.
- 5.4 Identify options and their potential outcomes when making a decision related to safety and injury prevention.
Next Gen Science Standards
5-ESS3-1 Earth and Human Activity
- Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the Earth and environment.
3-5-ETS1-2 Engineering Design
- Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.