Staying Safe Online – Digital Citizenship Lesson Pack, Grades 5–9

Your students are online every day – in class group chats, on YouTube, Roblox and Instagram. This pack shows them how to stay safe in a practical way, without scare tactics, focusing on what they can do themselves.

10 chapters:

• My digital footprint
• Strong passwords, password managers and two-factor authentication
• Phishing and scam messages
• Social media and privacy
• Strangers online
• Cyberbullying
• Scams in games and in-app purchases
• A secure device
• What to do when something happens
• The 10 Golden Rules of safe internet use – as a classroom poster

What you get (ZIP):

• an illustrated student book (PDF, clickable table of contents),
• the same text in Word for editing,
• a worksheet with 12 tasks and an answer key (spot the scam, "What would you do?" scenarios, privacy checklist),
• a lesson plan,
• a 16-slide presentation,
• an interactive quiz (12 questions) and flashcards in the browser that can read aloud,
• flashcards for Quizlet/Anki (CSV).

For grades 5–9 – computer science, digital citizenship, advisory and Safer Internet Day. Part 2 of the Digital Skills series. Licensed for one teacher and their classes.

Text and illustrations were created with the help of artificial intelligence and reviewed by the author, a computer science teacher.