In a game
You are one level from finishing. A box says you can skip it right now for a small amount.
What do you do?
Life Skills · Discover · Pre-K to Grade 2
Chapter 5: Online & AI
Some buttons cost money or give things away.
Some buttons cost money or give things away.
2 situations to decide. There is often more than one good answer: pick one and see what happens.
In a game
What do you do?
A new app
What do you do?
Some buttons in games cost real money. They do not always look like it.
Your name, your age, where you live, a photo. Those are yours. Do not give them away without asking a grown-up.
If a button asks for money or asks about you, check with a grown-up first.
These ones do have right answers.
Tap each one, then tap where it goes.
Which of these should you check with a grown-up first?
Tap something to move it.
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A game asks where you live. What do you do?
Something to do away from the screen. Nobody is checking.
Why: Two is short enough to remember when a bright box appears.
Games aimed at this age are designed so that purchase buttons look like play buttons. A child tapping one has not been careless; the interface was built to produce exactly that tap.
The categories that matter are money and personal detail. Keeping the rule to those two makes it memorable, where a longer list would not be.
Worth checking purchase authentication is switched on, so the lesson is a backstop rather than the only defense.