Earn my privacy badge

Learning goal: Apply privacy choices in three new situations.

Prepare: One worksheet per child, pencils or crayons, and the linked book pages. A closed book can stand in for a device. No student account or device is needed.

Book connection: Cyber Safety Coloring & Activity Book Featuring Officer Quackers, PDF pages 9, 17. Numbers are PDF positions, including blank backs.

Teach the lesson

1. 3 min · Connect

   Review: What does our privacy shield protect?

2. 4 min · Model and say

   Model explaining a choice: I keep my address private because it tells where I live.

3. 8 min · Practice together

   Use page 17 to draw privacy ideas. Read fictional requests for a password, phone number, and school name. Children choose a helper response. Review page 9 without collecting personal details. Read the worksheet aloud and let children respond by pointing, speaking, circling, or drawing. Use optional coloring only if time allows.

4. 3 min · Discuss

   Invite two different responses. Ask: What would you do? Why could that help? Use the answer guide on the next page.

5. 2 min · Check understanding

   Check three scenarios. If a student needs a prompt, model that scenario again and let them retry.

Answers & follow-through

Worksheet guidance

1. A player asks for your address. Circle your choice.

   Keep it private and get help.

2. Someone asks your school name. What do you do?

   Ask a trusted adult before sharing.

3. Draw two ideas inside your own privacy shield.

   Accept any two explained privacy ideas, such as a lock and a helper.

Check, then respond

Check three scenarios. If a student needs a prompt, model that scenario again and let them retry.

Mark your observation: □ Independent   □ With a prompt   □ Needs practice. If a child needs practice, demonstrate the same action again and offer a new example in the next class. This is a teaching check, not a safety certification.

Make it work for your learners

Support: Read aloud, point to two choices, model one response, and accept a gesture, spoken answer, drawing, or partner scribe. Do not require independent reading.

Extend: Ask the child to invent one new pretend situation for today’s goal and explain a safe response to a partner.

Family conversation

Ask your child to explain one idea in their privacy shield.

No personal information or signed homework needs to be returned.

Teacher care note

Use fictional situations. Do not collect passwords, addresses, or private experiences. Offer an alternative to role-play. If a child shares a concern, listen calmly, avoid public questioning, and follow school procedures.