Recognizing online scams and phishing tricks is the focus of this Grade 4 Computer Science worksheet on Digital Citizenship. Students learn to identify warning signs in suspicious messages, understand how phishing and fraud attempts try to collect information, and use critical thinking to decide whether an online message or offer can be trusted. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}

Build Safer Online Decision-Making

This resource gives students practical situations for thinking before they click, reply, or share information. Learners examine clues such as suspicious messages and urgent requests, then consider why those warning signs should make them stop and evaluate what they are seeing. The focus is on developing a careful decision-making process rather than simply memorizing a list of dangers.

Students also explore how phishing and other fraud attempts can be designed to trick people into revealing information. By deciding whether sample emails, advertisements, and pop-up messages appear trustworthy, learners practise applying scam-safety strategies to familiar online situations.

How Students Practise Scam Awareness

The worksheet includes multiple-choice questions, true-or-false questions, short-answer responses, a dialogue task, matching, a cloze passage, a labeled diagram, a reading passage, and an essay. :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1} These different formats encourage students to spot warning signs, explain their reasoning, evaluate online messages, and apply safer responses in context.

• Identify suspicious messages and urgent requests as possible warning signs
• Explain how phishing and fraud attempts try to trick people
• Evaluate whether an online offer or message appears trustworthy
• Apply scam-safety strategies to emails, advertisements, and pop-ups

What Teachers Receive

• A student worksheet focused on online scams, phishing, and digital safety
• Student Notes lines at the bottom of the worksheet
• A separate Teacher Guide with Learning Objectives, Teaching Tips, Discussion Questions, and Common Mistakes

The Teacher Guide supports lesson preparation and follow-up discussion. :contentReference[oaicite:2]{index=2} Teachers can use the worksheet during guided instruction, independent practice, homework, review, or as part of a broader Digital Citizenship unit.

This Grade 4 Computer Science resource provides focused practice with online scam awareness, phishing safety, and trustworthy-message evaluation. It is especially useful when students are beginning to navigate online messages and offers more independently and need a structured way to pause, inspect warning signs, and make safer choices.