Setting up an account
A new app asks for your real name, your birthday, your school and a profile photo. It says this helps you find friends.
What do you fill in?
Life Skills · Practice · Grades 3 to 5
Chapter 5: Online & AI
Anything that helps somebody find you or pretend to be you.
Anything that helps somebody find you or pretend to be you.
2 situations to decide. There is often more than one good answer: pick one and see what happens.
Setting up an account
What do you fill in?
A photo of your room
What do you check first?
The test is not "is it secret". It is: could somebody use this to find me, or to pretend to be me?
Your address, your school, the park you go to every Tuesday, your street in the background of a photo.
Your full name with your birthday, your passwords, your account names.
A photo of your friend is partly theirs. Ask before you post somebody else.
These ones do have right answers.
Sort each one.
Which of these are safe to put on a public profile?
Tap something to move it.
Question 1 of 1
Your friend asks you to post a photo of both of you. What do you do?
Something to do away from the screen. Nobody is checking.
Why: One careful look at one real photo teaches this better than any rule.
A consequence-based test survives new platforms and new forms; a list of forbidden facts does not. That is why the lesson defines private by what it enables rather than by category.
The background-of-photos point is worth doing practically, once, with a real photo. Children find it genuinely surprising how much is in the shot.
Consent for photos of other people is easiest to establish now, before it becomes a much harder conversation at thirteen.