Personal Information and Privacy is a Grade 6 computer science worksheet that teaches students how to make safer decisions about sharing information online. Through digital citizenship reading, profile analysis, and written responses, students explore how personal details can reveal identity or location and why privacy settings, secure passwords, and careful sharing matter.

What Students Will Learn

Students examine the difference between public and private information and consider who should have access to specific details. They learn to recognize personal information such as full names, phone numbers, home addresses, school names, and dates of birth. The lesson also addresses public online profiles, location clues, password security, privacy settings, and the importance of asking a trusted adult when an online request seems confusing or unnecessary.

Rather than treating online safety as a list of rules to memorize, the resource asks students to apply these ideas to realistic digital situations. They evaluate requests for personal details, consider the risks of sharing information with unfamiliar people, and explain how thoughtful choices can protect their accounts and privacy.

Inside the Resource

• Dialogue and summary: Students work with a dialogue-based activity and summarize the main ideas.
• Matching pairs: Connect related privacy and digital citizenship concepts.
• Cloze exercise: Complete a passage about personal information, private details, public profiles, passwords, location clues, and seeking guidance.
• Label the diagram: Apply visual thinking to the topic of online privacy.
• Reading comprehension: Read an informational passage about website profiles, online forms, privacy settings, and safer sharing decisions.
• Multiple-choice questions: Apply reading details and online safety principles to practical scenarios.
• True-or-false questions: Evaluate statements about privacy, passwords, location information, and audience settings.
• Short-answer responses: Explain safe choices and support answers with details from the reading.
• Extended written response: Analyze a new online profile and form scenario, identifying safety actions and explaining why they matter.

Practical Digital Citizenship Skills

This digital citizenship worksheet helps students move beyond recognizing private information to making informed decisions. They consider why an unfamiliar form might request a home address, how a school name and schedule can reveal location patterns, why passwords should never be sent to strangers, and how audience settings affect profile visibility. The reading also reinforces an important distinction: strong passwords and privacy settings reduce certain risks, but no protection guarantees complete online safety.

Ways to Use It in Class

Use the worksheet during a Grade 6 computer science lesson on digital citizenship, as guided reading followed by independent practice, or as a review of personal information and online privacy. Teachers can discuss the reading with the class before students complete the activities, invite students to explain their reasoning, and use the extended response to assess how well they apply privacy principles to a realistic situation.

A separate Teacher Guide PDF accompanies the worksheet. It includes learning objectives, teaching tips, discussion questions, and common mistakes, giving teachers additional support for lesson preparation and classroom discussion.

Resource Details

• Subject: Computer Science
• Grade level: Grade 6
• Topic: Digital Citizenship
• Format: Printable worksheet with a separate Teacher Guide PDF
• Curriculum framework: General; no specific standards alignment is stated.

Help students build responsible online habits by connecting privacy concepts with practical decisions about profiles, forms, passwords, and personal information.