CyberShield Kids • Module 5 • Lesson 5.5
Digital Footprints Review
In this review lesson, students practice the most important ideas from Module 5: digital footprints, thinking before sharing, photos, posts, screenshots, cleanup choices, and asking trusted adults for help.
Lessons Reviewed
Module 5 covered four important safety lessons.
Lesson 5.1
What Is a Digital Footprint?
A digital footprint is the trail of information connected to what someone does online, such as posts, comments, photos, usernames, and activity.
Lesson 5.2
Think Before You Share
Before sharing online, students should pause and think about privacy, kindness, permission, safety, and whether a trusted adult should help.
Lesson 5.3
Photos, Posts, and Screenshots
Photos, posts, and screenshots can spread quickly. Students should use fake examples in practice and ask before sharing about others.
Lesson 5.4
Cleaning Up and Asking for Help
If something online feels confusing, embarrassing, unsafe, secret, or urgent, students should pause and ask a trusted adult for help.
Safety Reminder
Keep practice examples fake and safe.
Students should not use real private information, real screenshots, real messages, real passwords, real names, real conflicts, or real school information in practice activities.
Review Rule
Pause before sharing. Ask before posting about others. Get a trusted adult when something feels unsafe, confusing, embarrassing, secret, scary, or urgent.
Vocabulary Review
Important words from Module 5
Students should be able to explain these words in simple, age-appropriate language.
Safe and Unsafe Examples
Can you spot the safer choice?
These are fake classroom examples. Students should practice choosing the safer response without using real screenshots, real private messages, or real personal details.
Safer choice
A student uses a fake example during class instead of sharing a real screenshot or private message.
Unsafe choice
A student posts a photo that includes another person without asking permission first.
Safer choice
A student notices private information in a post and asks a trusted adult what to do.
Unsafe choice
A student feels worried about something online but keeps it secret because they are embarrassed.
Safer choice
A student pauses before posting and thinks about whether the post is kind, safe, and private.
Unsafe choice
A student spreads a screenshot because other people are sharing it too.
Review Questions
Check your understanding.
Read each question and review the safer answer.
Question 1
What is a digital footprint?
Review answer
A digital footprint is the trail of information connected to what someone does online.
Question 2
Why should students pause before sharing online?
Review answer
Pausing helps students think about privacy, kindness, permission, and safety before something becomes part of their digital footprint.
Question 3
Why can screenshots be tricky?
Review answer
Screenshots can be saved, copied, and shared by others, even when the original message or post is removed.
Question 4
What should students do if they post something by mistake?
Review answer
They should pause, stay calm, and ask a trusted adult for help instead of trying to fix a serious problem alone.
Question 5
Who can be a trusted adult?
Review answer
A trusted adult can be a parent, guardian, teacher, counselor, coach, librarian, or school technology staff member.
Real-Life Safety Habit
Pause, think, ask, then share.
Before posting, commenting, sending, or sharing, students should pause and ask: Is this kind? Is this private? Did I get permission? Could this become part of my digital footprint? Do I need a trusted adult?
Digital Footprint Pledge
I will make safer online choices.
I will pause before I post, share, comment, or send. I will protect private information, ask permission before sharing about others, use kind words online, and ask a trusted adult for help when something feels unsafe, confusing, embarrassing, secret, or urgent.
Final Checklist
Students are ready to finish Module 5 when they can say:
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