CyberShield Kids • Module 1
Online Safety Basics
This module helps elementary students learn the first safety habits they need online: protect private information, use safer usernames, pause before sharing, and ask trusted adults for help when something feels wrong.
Module Lessons
What students will complete
All Module 1 lessons are live. Students can complete the lessons in order or return to any lesson for review.
Personal Information
Learn what personal information means and why students should be careful when sharing details online.
Private Information
Learn which details should stay private, including addresses, phone numbers, school names, passwords, and family information.
Safe Usernames
Learn how to create usernames that do not reveal full names, schools, birthdays, or locations.
Trusted Adults
Learn when to pause, step away, and ask a parent, teacher, counselor, or school technology staff member for help.
Module Review
Review safe choices, warning signs, and what to do when something online feels confusing, strange, or unsafe.
Big Ideas
The safety habits students should remember
Pause first
Before clicking, sharing, replying, or downloading, students should pause and think.
Protect private details
Students should not share real addresses, phone numbers, passwords, school details, or family information online.
Use safe examples only
This module uses fake examples. Students should never type real private information into CyberShield activities.
Ask for help
When something feels confusing, scary, secret, urgent, or unsafe, students should ask a trusted adult.
Teacher and Family Note
This module is defensive and age-appropriate.
Students should not enter real passwords, real addresses, real phone numbers, real school information, or private family details. CyberShield examples should stay fake, simple, and safe.
Trusted adult reminder
If something online feels confusing, scary, urgent, secret, or unsafe, students should pause and ask a parent, teacher, counselor, or school technology staff member for help.
Practice Preview
Safe or unsafe examples
These examples are simple practice situations. They do not use real links, real passwords, or real student information.
Safer choice
A student asks a parent or teacher before entering information into a new game website.
Unsafe choice
A student types their home address into a random popup to win a prize.
Safer choice
A student uses a username that does not include their full real name, school, or birthday.
Module Status
Module 1 is complete and live
Online Safety Basics is fully built. Students can review this module or continue to Module 2. /kids/online-safety-basics/personal-information. That page will become the first individual Kids lesson.
Continue Learning
Ready for Module 2?
After finishing Online Safety Basics, students can continue to Passwords and Accounts to learn how accounts are protected and why passwords should stay private.