Safe Use of Shared Devices is a Grade 3 Computer Science resource focused on digital citizenship and responsible classroom technology routines. Students learn why logging out, protecting personal information, keeping passwords private, and caring for shared devices are important when computers or tablets are used by multiple students.

Build Safe Shared-Device Habits

The resource connects digital citizenship with practical classroom routines students can use immediately. Learners identify what to do before using a shared device, how to protect another student's information, and how to handle equipment responsibly. The reading passage and activities reinforce key ideas such as logging out, using the account provided by the teacher, avoiding private-information sharing, using clean hands and gentle touches, keeping food and drinks away from equipment, and reporting device problems instead of attempting repairs.

Student Practice

Students work through a dialogue, matching activity, cloze passage, labeled diagram, and reading passage before applying the concepts through multiple-choice questions, fact-or-fiction statements, brief written responses, and an extended response. The tasks ask students to explain why logging out protects private information, recognize safe and unsafe device behaviors, identify information that should remain private, and describe routines for using shared tablets before, during, and after a technology activity.

What Teachers Receive

• Worksheet activities centered on safe use of shared classroom devices
• Reading and comprehension practice focused on digital citizenship routines
• Multiple-choice, true-or-false, matching, cloze, diagram-labeling, short-answer, and extended-response tasks
• Separate Teacher Guide PDF with Learning Objectives, Teaching Tips, Discussion Questions, and Common Mistakes

Classroom Use

Use this digital citizenship worksheet for direct instruction, independent practice, classroom discussion, technology lessons, or written review. The Teacher Guide provides practical support for introducing the routines, prompting discussion about privacy and responsibility, and addressing common misunderstandings. The resource gives students repeated opportunities to connect safe technology behavior with protecting information, equipment, and learning time.

For Grade 3 Computer Science instruction, this resource provides a focused way to teach shared device safety through realistic classroom situations and written practice. It is especially useful when students are beginning to work more independently with classroom computers or tablets and need clear routines for responsible technology use.