Cyberbullying and Bystander Choices is a Grade 5 Computer Science resource focused on digital citizenship and safe, respectful responses to online harm. Students examine what cyberbullying can look like, identify the role of a bystander, and consider choices that can reduce harm rather than increase it.

What Students Practice

The resource develops practical digital citizenship skills through situations involving harmful posts, repeated harassment, exclusion, group messages, and online comments. Students identify cyberbullying behaviors, explain how bystanders can respond safely, choose appropriate ways to report problems, and describe how to support a targeted person without creating additional harm. Key ideas include avoiding likes, shares, reposts, and mean comments; saving useful evidence; reporting concerns to a trusted adult or appropriate online service; protecting personal privacy; and using kind, supportive communication.

Student Activities

Students work through a dialogue, matching activity, cloze passage, labeled diagram, and reading passage about how online harm can spread and how bystander choices can change the situation. Multiple-choice questions check understanding of cyberbullying, bystander behavior, reporting, privacy, and safe support. True-or-false questions reinforce safe online choices, while short-answer prompts ask students to explain why harmful content should not be shared and how to help someone being targeted. An extended response asks students to apply the ideas to a repeated harmful-comment situation in a group chat.

Teacher Support

A separate Teacher Guide PDF is included with learning objectives, teaching tips, discussion questions, and common mistakes. This makes the resource useful for direct instruction, guided discussion, independent practice, or reinforcement of classroom expectations for respectful online communication. The activities also provide opportunities for students to explain their reasoning rather than simply identify a correct response.

Why It Fits Digital Citizenship Instruction

The resource keeps the focus on concrete decisions students may encounter online: pause before responding, avoid adding to harmful content, protect personal information, seek trusted adult support, and show care toward someone who has been targeted. It is designed to help Grade 5 learners connect cyberbullying awareness with responsible bystander behavior and safer online communication.