Safe Search Choices gives Grade 3 students practical Computer Science practice for making safer decisions when using search engines and websites. Students learn to evaluate search results, recognize trustworthy and approved websites, identify risky links, protect private information, and know when to stop searching and ask a trusted adult for help.

What Students Practice

• Identify safe and unsafe choices when searching online.
• Read search-result titles and web addresses carefully before clicking.
• Evaluate whether a website is trustworthy, approved, unusual, or risky.
• Recognize links that request personal information or make unusual promises.
• Explain when to return to search results and choose a safer source.
• Describe how trusted adults can help when an online result feels confusing or uncomfortable.

Student Activities

The worksheet combines a dialogue, matching activity, cloze passage, labeled diagram, reading passage, multiple-choice questions, true-or-false questions, short responses, and an extended response. The reading and questions focus on search engines, search results, approved websites, trustworthy sources, web addresses, personal information, risky links, and careful clicking.

Teacher Support Included

• Teacher Guide with Learning Objectives
• Teaching Tips for classroom use
• Discussion Questions for guided conversation
• Common Mistakes to help address misconceptions

Classroom Use

Use this digital citizenship worksheet for direct instruction, guided practice, independent work, review, or a classroom conversation about safe searching. The reading passage provides a shared context for discussing why not every search result is safe or trustworthy and why students should choose websites approved by a teacher, school, or family member.

Students also apply the ideas to a realistic class-project scenario by explaining how they would select a safe and trustworthy result and what they would do if a link seemed unusual or requested personal information. The combination of reading, decision-making, and written responses gives teachers multiple ways to check students' ability to apply safe search choices rather than simply recall rules.