Carried Away with ‘Cookies’

Part 1: Our Digital Footprint

Platform

Year Levels

  • Y3-4 (Guided)

  • Y5-6

Duration

  • 1 lesson

Resources

Differentiation

Use different kinds of cookies, or even different types of representative tokens, to track individual learner movements between website stations.

Extension

Use a bingo-style scorecard to prompt visiting each website station, and a point system that cookies benefit or hinder.

Extend the activity to a computerised context in Part 2.

About Activity

Do you know what cookies are? Ever wondered what they do while you’re online, how they can be used, and how to browse the web without them?

This activity introduces your learners to the concept of cookies through a physical activity that involves real, edible cookies! Use crumbly cookies to demonstrate our online footprint and compare this to private browsing through features like incognito mode.


Check out the next part of this One Good Kiwi activity: