Recognizing Scams and Phishing is a Grade 5 Computer Science worksheet focused on digital citizenship and safer decision-making when reviewing suspicious online messages. Students examine how scams and phishing attempts can use strange sender addresses, unusual spelling, unexpected offers, urgent language, unfamiliar links, and requests for personal information to trick people.

What Students Practice

Students identify common warning signs of fraudulent communication and explain why scammers may pressure people to act quickly or request information such as passwords and account numbers. The lesson also develops evidence-based reasoning as students use details from emails, messages, websites, and pop-ups to decide whether a communication may be unsafe.

The worksheet includes a dialogue, matching activity, cloze passage, labeled diagram, reading passage, multiple-choice questions, true-or-false statements, short responses, and an extended response. These activities ask students to apply the lesson concepts in different ways, including recognizing phishing, identifying suspicious details, explaining the risks of urgent language, evaluating unfamiliar links, and choosing safer responses.

Teacher Support Included

• Teacher Guide provided as a separate PDF
• Learning Objectives for the lesson
• Teaching Tips for classroom use
• Discussion Questions to support student conversation
• Common Mistakes to help address misconceptions

Classroom Use

Use this digital citizenship resource for direct instruction, independent practice, review, or discussion about online safety. The reading passage gives students a clear context for examining phishing messages, while the questions and extended response provide opportunities to apply warning signs to realistic situations. Students finish by considering how they would respond to a suspicious prize message containing a strange address, spelling mistakes, a password request, and pressure to respond immediately.

This computer science worksheet gives teachers a focused way to address scam awareness, phishing recognition, online safety, personal information protection, and safer responses to suspicious messages without claiming a specific external curriculum standard.