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Staying Safe Online and Protecting Your Information

  • Grades 3-5
  • Life Skills & Career Paths
  • JS:FD-6
  • Consumer Skills
  • Free lesson

Aligned to JS:FD-6 — Jump$tart National Standards in K-12 Personal Finance Education & Advance CTE Career Clusters.

What this lesson teaches

Some information about you is fine to share and some is not. Your full name, address, school, passwords and anything about your family's money belong in the second group. Anyone who asks a kid for those online is doing something wrong, no matter how friendly they seem.

Worked examples

Example 1

A game asks for your username and a password. That is normal. A player in the chat asking what school you go to is not, and you can just stop answering.

Example 2

A message saying 'you won a prize, enter your parent's card number' is a scam. Real prizes never need a card number.

Example 3

A password you use everywhere means one leak unlocks everything. Different passwords for important accounts is the single best habit.

Practice questions

  1. List three things you should never post or send online.
  2. Someone online asks where you live. What do you do?
  3. Why is using the same password everywhere risky?

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En español

Seguridad en línea y proteger tu información

Cierta información sobre ti se puede compartir y otra no. Tu nombre completo, tu dirección, tu escuela, tus contraseñas y cualquier cosa sobre el dinero de tu familia van en el segundo grupo. Quien le pide eso a un niño en línea está haciendo algo malo, por amable que parezca.

Ejemplo 1: Un juego te pide un nombre de usuario y una contraseña. Eso es normal. Un jugador en el chat preguntando a qué escuela vas no lo es, y simplemente puedes dejar de responder.

Ejemplo 2: Un mensaje que dice 'ganaste un premio, escribe el número de tarjeta de tu papá' es una estafa. Los premios reales nunca piden un número de tarjeta.

Ejemplo 3: Una contraseña que usas en todos lados significa que una sola filtración abre todo. Contraseñas distintas para las cuentas importantes es el mejor hábito.

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