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Australia's trusted provider of online safety education.
Access free, curriculum-aligned resources to help keep learners safe and responsible online.

Story time: Brick Needs a Break by Jayden Choi (Age 5) and Kim Maslin

Read the free eBook "Brick Needs a Break", a winning entry from the Series 1 Stories by Digital Children competition.

Speak up about Compulsion Risks: Create a podcast or fact sheet

Learners explore compulsion-related online safety risks by creating a podcast or fact sheet that encourages balanced digital habits.

Speak up about Contact Risks: Create a podcast or fact sheet

Learners explore contact risks by creating a podcast or fact sheet, building skills to stay safe when connecting with others online.

Speak up about Conduct Risks: Create a podcast or fact sheet

Empowering learners to explore online conduct risks through podcast creation or fact sheet design.

Speak up about Content Risks: Create a podcast or fact sheet

Empowering learners to explore online content risks through podcast creation or fact sheet design.

How to be a team player online

Learners explore how positive behaviour—like respect, kindness, and fairness—helps create safe online spaces.

Pause, notice, question, act: Stopping the spread of misinformation and disinformation

Learners build critical thinking skills to recognise and respond to misinformation that is shared with them.

Is it fair and authentic? Representation in online media

Learners explore fairness and inclusion in media, recognising diverse and respectful representation.

What fills your bucket? Mindful media consumption

Learners reflect on how online content affects their wellbeing, building habits to support emotional safety.

Classroom pop-ups: A storytelling lesson

Explore pop-up ads as a form of digital advertising through storytelling and roleplay.

Online Contact: A Conscience Alley Activity

In this activity, students explore problems and decisions faced online. It encourages boundary-setting, respectful interactions, and assertiveness for online safety.

Spotting Artificial Intelligence (AI) Images

This hands-on activity explores AI-generated images and ethical considerations, teaching students media literacy skills to distinguish between AI and human-created media while creating their own AI images.

Story Time: “Oh, No… Hacked Again!” by Zinet Kemal

This activity is relevant for students engaging in online activities such as gaming, social media, or messaging services, helping them identify when to seek support before sharing personal information, expanding their understanding of hacking and its impacts.

Gaming Rules: A Creative Writing Activity

This activity enhances creative writing in the English curriculum, focusing on character development, settings, and plot structures, and is relevant for students engaged in online gaming and social media, addressing respectful relationships and promoting empathy and respect in both online and offline environments.

Setting our Intentions: Authentic Apologies

In this arts-based activity, students explore sincere apologies and restorative practices in online behaviours through discussion and mixed-media collage creation, focusing on empathy, reflection, and responsibility.

Learning Through Poetry: Keys to the Future, by Children’s Laureate Wales

This activity introduces students to poetry, relates its key themes to their lives, addresses concerns about wellbeing and social interactions related to device usage, and encourages a balanced perspective on technology use.

Emotion Detectives: Regulating Online Feelings

This activity addresses issues related to technology use at school and home, promotes critical thinking about its emotional and social impact, develops self-regulation strategies, and cultivates communication skills such as active listening and empathy.

Students craft protection brews against scary content, fostering media literacy through creative arts.

Fun with Filters: An Image Manipulation Lesson

Learners manipulate images using digital devices or traditional arts, laying the groundwork for media literacy concepts.

Story Time: Swoosh, Glide, and Rule Number 5

Students learn online safety through 'Swoosh, Glide, and Rule Number 5' story time, addressing internet use with family and friends.

Tic-Tac-Think: Digital Defenders Edition

This game promotes discussions about online safety, encouraging cooperation while learning to protect their personal information.

Ways to say “no”: A roleplay lesson

Students practice saying 'no' in online scenarios, fostering confidence and assertiveness to set personal boundaries safely.

Caring critters puppet party: Showing respect online

Students use soft toys, storytelling, and crafts to explore online kindness, fostering empathy and respectful behaviour in digital interactions.

Story Time: Raymond the Raccoon Misses His Friends

Students explore the importance of balanced digital device usage and encourages face-to-face social interactions.

Emotion detectives: Roleplay to explore technology and emotion

This activity helps students explore the emotional impacts of technology. It fosters balanced screen time and mindful online interactions.

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Access adaptable, age-appropriate lesson plans that help learners develop media literacy and digital citizenship.

These resources, aligned with the Australian Curriculum (Version 9.0) and fully funded by the Australian Government, support educators in preparing learners to navigate the online world safely and responsibly.

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Setting our Intentions: Authentic Apologies

Years 3-4

Conduct

Setting our Intentions: Authentic Apologies

In this arts-based activity, students explore sincere apologies and restorative practices in online behaviours through discussion and mixed-media collage creation, focusing on empathy, reflection, and responsibility.

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Classroom pop-ups: A storytelling lesson

Years F-2

Content

Classroom pop-ups: A storytelling lesson

Explore pop-up ads as a form of digital advertising through storytelling and roleplay.

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Caring critters puppet party: Showing respect online

Years F-2

Conduct

Caring critters puppet party: Showing respect online

Students use soft toys, storytelling, and crafts to explore online kindness, fostering empathy and respectful behaviour in digital interactions.

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How to be a team player online

Years 5-6

Conduct

How to be a team player online

Learners explore how positive behaviour—like respect, kindness, and fairness—helps create safe online spaces.

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Story Time: Raymond the Raccoon Misses His Friends

Years F-2

Compulsion

Story Time: Raymond the Raccoon Misses His Friends

Students explore the importance of balanced digital device usage and encourages face-to-face social interactions.

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Emotion detectives: Roleplay to explore technology and emotion

Years F-2

Compulsion

Emotion detectives: Roleplay to explore technology and emotion

This activity helps students explore the emotional impacts of technology. It fosters balanced screen time and mindful online interactions.

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Essential digital citizenship and online safety skills for primary school-aged learners.

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The 4Cs of online safety risk

Our program embraces a tech-positive approach, recognising the immense benefits of technology, while also addressing the risks learners face online. Explore lesson plans across the four common online safety risk areas, based on the 4Cs framework.

Content

Understanding the media and information encountered online through media literacy, critical thinking, and ethical decision-making skills.

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Contact

Navigating online interactions safely by setting boundaries, adjusting privacy settings, and practising safe and respectful communication.

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Conduct

Making responsible choices by behaving and communicating respectfully and understanding the impact online behaviours have on others.

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Compulsion

Balancing digital technology use by fostering healthy habits, managing screen time and developing self-regulation skills.

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DigiTalk helps Australian families raise safe, strong, and compassionate digital citizens through supportive resources.

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Digital Licence+

Learning tools to help learners aged 10-14 build online safety skills and digital emotional intelligence.

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Media Literacy Lab

A fun, gamified platform empowering students to navigate the media landscape. Free for all Australian schools!

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