Make sure that your students understand the policy. Do not have students go online just for the sake of going online. Students will quickly master navigating the Internet and the novelty will wear off. Lesson plans that require students to go online for information they could find in a fraction of the time by walking over to a bookshelf defeats the purpose of using the Internet in the classroom. Having students go through the motions of finding a document is much less important than what they actually do with it after they have found it.
Many sites have examples of lesson plans that incorporate the Internet.
Searching Searching the Internet is a skill. There are links to teacher search engines and student search engines. It is best to use the student search engines with children. The student search engines filter results for appropriate content and are safe to use with children. The teacher search engines will display the descriptions of inappropriate sites but Cyberpatrol will block the actual sites.