CyberShield Kids • Module 3 • Lesson 3.5
Scam Spotting Review
This review helps students practice the biggest ideas from Module 3: what scams are, how fake offers work, how to notice strange messages, and how to use the pause-check-ask habit before clicking.
Review Goal
By the end of this review, students should be able to:
Safety Reminder
This review uses fake examples only.
CyberShield should not include real scam links, real suspicious downloads, real phishing pages, or real private student information. Students should not click real suspicious links to test them. They should ask a trusted adult for help.
Lessons Reviewed
What Module 3 covered
Module 3 helped students practice scam awareness without using real suspicious links, real passwords, or real private information.
Lesson 3.1
What Is a Scam?
Students learned that scams are tricks that try to get people to click, share, believe, or do something unsafe.
Lesson 3.2
Too-Good-to-Be-True Offers
Students learned that surprise prizes, free game coins, impossible rewards, and urgent offers can be warning signs.
Lesson 3.3
Strange Messages
Students learned how to notice messages that ask for secrets, passwords, private information, fast replies, or unsafe actions.
Lesson 3.4
Pause Before You Click
Students learned the pause-check-ask habit before clicking links, buttons, popups, downloads, or messages.
Vocabulary Review
Important words from Module 3
Scam
A trick that tries to get someone to click, share information, believe something fake, or do something unsafe.
Warning sign
A clue that tells students to pause, slow down, and ask for help before continuing.
Too good to be true
Something that sounds so amazing, easy, or surprising that students should pause and check before believing it.
Strange message
A message that feels confusing, suspicious, unsafe, unexpected, or uncomfortable.
Popup
A box or message that appears on a screen, sometimes asking someone to click, download, or share information.
Pause-check-ask
A safety habit: pause first, check for warning signs, and ask a trusted adult before continuing.
Review Questions
Choose the safer answer
Students can answer these questions out loud, in a notebook, or during a classroom discussion.
Question 1
A popup says you won a prize, but you did not enter a contest. What should you do?
Safer answer
Do not click it. Surprise prize messages can be scam warning signs. Pause and ask a trusted adult.
Question 2
A game message promises free coins if you type your password. What is unsafe about this?
Safer answer
Passwords are private. Students should not type passwords into reward messages, games, popups, or practice activities.
Question 3
Someone online asks what school you go to and says not to tell your parents. What warning signs do you notice?
Safer answer
The message asks for private information and asks for secrecy. Do not reply. Tell a trusted adult.
Question 4
A stranger sends a link in a game chat. What is the safer choice?
Safer answer
Do not click the link. Ask a trusted adult because links from strangers can be unsafe.
Safe or Unsafe Review
Practice spotting safer scam choices.
These examples are fake and classroom safe. Students should use them to practice noticing scam warning signs.
A student sees a strange prize popup and asks a parent before clicking.
Answer: Safer choice
Asking a trusted adult before clicking suspicious popups is a smart safety habit.
A student types a password into a message promising free game rewards.
Answer: Unsafe choice
Passwords should stay private and should not be typed into suspicious messages or reward offers.
A student gets a message asking for private information and does not reply.
Answer: Safer choice
Students should not reply to suspicious messages asking for private information.
A student downloads a file from an unexpected message because it says there is a prize.
Answer: Unsafe choice
Students should not download strange files. They should pause and ask a trusted adult first.
Real-Life Safety Habit
Remember: pause, check, ask.
Module 3 Rules
Scam spotting reminders
Final Checklist
Students are ready to finish Module 3 when they can say:
Module Complete
You finished Kids Module 3.
The next future Kids module will focus on kind and safe technology use. For now, students can return to the Kids track, review Module 3, or practice more activities.
Scam Spotting Pledge
I will pause before clicking, check for warning signs, protect my private information, avoid suspicious links and downloads, and ask a trusted adult when something online feels strange or unsafe.