Smart-choice story stations

Learning goal: Explain safe choices across privacy, kindness, and permission.

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 33, 49, 51. Numbers are PDF positions, including blank backs.

Teach the lesson

1. 3 min · Connect

   Ask children to recall one habit from each of the last three units.

2. 4 min · Model and say

   Use one pair on page 51. Model naming the action and why it helps, rather than choosing by left or right position.

3. 8 min · Practice together

   Run three oral stations: a download request, a request for a school name, and a friend losing a game. Students give actions and reasons. Page 33 is an optional observation break, not a safety assessment. 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

   Record whether each child can choose a safe action and explain one reason; reteach any uncertain station.

Answers & follow-through

Worksheet guidance

1. A new game wants a download. Circle a choice.

   Ask first and wait.

2. A player asks your school name. Circle a choice.

   Protect the information and ask a trusted adult.

3. Draw a kind response to a friend who loses.

   Accept encouragement or offering help; ask the student to explain.

Check, then respond

Record whether each child can choose a safe action and explain one reason; reteach any uncertain station.

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 invent a pretend choice for you to solve together.

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.