Phishing and social engineering worksheets for Grade 7 Computer Science help students recognize deceptive online messages, evaluate suspicious links, and make safer decisions when their accounts or personal information may be at risk. Through realistic cybersecurity scenarios, students examine how attackers exploit trust, fear, curiosity, and urgency to persuade people to take unsafe actions.

Rather than treating every professional-looking email as trustworthy, students practise checking the sender's address, questioning unexpected requests, identifying suspicious website links, and verifying claims through official communication channels. The lesson also addresses what to do after receiving a suspicious message and how to respond if a password has already been shared.

What Students Practise

The activities move from identifying key ideas to applying safe-response strategies in realistic situations.

• Recognizing phishing: Identify unusual sender addresses, unfamiliar links, unexpected attachments, false prize offers, and messages threatening immediate account closure.
• Understanding social engineering: Explain how deception, pressure, fear, and misplaced trust can influence a person's decisions.
• Evaluating suspicious messages: Examine the sender, website destination, information requests, and credibility of a message before responding.
• Choosing safe actions: Explain why students should avoid suspicious links, protect passwords, verify claims independently, and report potential attacks to a teacher or trusted adult.

Activities Included in the Worksheet

Students work through a dialogue summary, matching activity, cloze passage, labeled diagram, and a reading passage titled Recognizing Phishing and Social Engineering. The reading explains how phishing works, describes common warning signs, and outlines practical steps for responding safely.

Multiple-choice questions and true-or-false statements assess students' ability to distinguish suspicious behaviour from safer online practices. Short-answer prompts ask learners to identify warning signs, explain why urgency can make people vulnerable, and describe appropriate responses. An extended-response scenario challenges students to analyse a threatening school technology email, explain how to verify its authenticity, and outline what to do after entering a password on a suspicious website.

Included Teacher Support

This resource includes the student worksheet and a separate Teacher Guide PDF with learning objectives, teaching tips, discussion questions, and common mistakes. The guide provides additional support for introducing cybersecurity vocabulary, discussing suspicious messages, and helping students explain the reasoning behind safer choices.

Classroom Use

Use this Grade 7 cybersecurity worksheet during a Computer Science lesson on online safety, as guided practice after introducing phishing and social engineering, or as independent review of digital citizenship and account protection. The reading passage provides a shared reference for written responses, while the final scenario gives students an opportunity to apply several warning signs and response strategies to one situation.

Designed for general Computer Science instruction, this resource gives teachers a focused way to address phishing awareness, suspicious email evaluation, password safety, and responsible reporting without requiring students to interact with real suspicious messages or websites.