Protecting Personal Information gives Grade 5 students a practical introduction to digital citizenship, with a clear focus on deciding what information should stay private and making safer choices when using websites, games, profiles, messages, and online forms.

What Students Practice

Students examine the difference between private and public information and identify details that should be protected, including full names, addresses, phone numbers, schools, account names, and passwords. They also explore how strong passwords and privacy settings help keep accounts secure and why students should pause before sharing personal details.

The activities ask students to connect ideas, apply privacy concepts, and explain their reasoning. They work with a dialogue, matching activity, cloze passage, labeled diagram, reading passage, multiple-choice questions, true-or-false statements, short written responses, and an extended response about creating a safer online profile.

Built Around Real Digital Citizenship Decisions

The reading and questions move beyond simply naming private information. Students consider who can see public information, why several seemingly harmless details can reveal more about a person, how privacy settings control access, and why passwords should not be shared. They also consider what to do when a website or online form requests personal details, including checking whether the request is trustworthy and asking an adult when necessary.

Teacher-Ready Support

The resource includes a separate Teacher Guide PDF with learning objectives, teaching tips, discussion questions, and common mistakes. This gives teachers additional support for introducing privacy concepts, discussing safe online choices, and addressing misunderstandings that may arise during instruction.

Classroom Use

Use this Grade 5 computer science worksheet as guided practice during a digital citizenship lesson, independent work after instruction, or a discussion-based review of online privacy and account security. The extended response also gives students an opportunity to apply the concepts to a realistic class-project profile and explain which information they would share, which information they would keep private, and how they would make the account more secure.

With its focus on personal information, privacy, public versus private information, strong passwords, privacy settings, and safe sharing choices, this resource provides targeted practice for helping students make thoughtful decisions about what they share online.