Cyberbullying and digital well-being are essential digital citizenship topics for Grade 9 Computer Science students navigating online communication, social platforms, and digital communities. This printable worksheet helps students distinguish cyberbullying from harassment, recognise harmful online behaviour, make safer choices as bystanders, and evaluate how everyday technology habits affect their well-being.

Rather than focusing only on definitions, students work through realistic online situations involving repeated insulting messages, exclusion from online groups, impersonation, privacy risks, and harmful content sharing. They consider how to respond safely, when to report inappropriate behaviour, and why trusted adult support matters when online activity causes ongoing distress.

What students explore

The resource connects digital safety vocabulary with practical decision-making. Students examine how individual choices can protect people and contribute to more respectful online spaces.

• Cyberbullying and harassment: Identify repeated harmful digital behaviour, unwanted intimidating conduct, exclusion, impersonation, and insulting messages.
• Bystander responsibility: Explain how witnesses can support targeted classmates, avoid forwarding harmful content, report incidents, and seek trusted adult assistance.
• Online privacy: Consider privacy settings, careful sharing, sensitive personal information, and responsible handling of screenshots and private messages.
• Digital well-being: Evaluate screen-time habits, notification settings, regular breaks, sleep, movement, schoolwork, and face-to-face activities.
• Respectful communication: Distinguish ordinary disagreements from cyberbullying and consider how empathy and responsible choices improve online interactions.

Inside the worksheet

Students begin by reading and summarising a dialogue before matching key vocabulary with its definitions. A cloze passage reinforces important digital citizenship terms, while a labelled diagram provides an additional visual task. A detailed reading passage then develops the concepts through explanations of harmful online behaviour, safe reporting, bystander responses, privacy, and balanced technology use.

Students apply what they have read through multiple-choice questions and true-or-false statements. Short-answer prompts require them to explain practical privacy protections, safe bystander actions, and the relationship between balanced screen time and well-being. The extended-response task brings these skills together in a scenario involving a classmate who experiences exclusion from an online study group and receives insulting messages.

Included resources

• ✔️ Grade 9 printable Computer Science worksheet on digital citizenship
• ✔️ Dialogue, vocabulary matching, cloze passage, and labelled diagram activities
• ✔️ Informational reading passage with comprehension and application questions
• ✔️ Multiple-choice, true-or-false, short-answer, and extended-response tasks
• ✔️ Separate Teacher Guide PDF with learning objectives, teaching tips, discussion questions, and common mistakes

The Teacher Guide provides additional support for introducing the topic, facilitating discussion, and addressing common misconceptions. It is separate from the student worksheet.

Ways to use this resource

Use this digital citizenship worksheet during a Grade 9 Computer Science lesson, as guided reading and independent practice, or as a structured discussion about online safety and responsible technology use. The vocabulary and reading activities establish key concepts, while the scenario-based questions give students opportunities to justify safe responses and communicate their reasoning in writing.

With a general framework designation rather than a named curriculum standard, this resource offers a focused way to address cyberbullying awareness, online privacy, responsible bystander behaviour, and healthy digital habits. Students finish by considering how empathy, reporting, privacy protection, and balanced technology use work together to create safer digital communities.