This resource is designed for teaching Year 3 and Year 4 Health and Digi-Tech lessons, covering digital literacy and online safety in an era where this is of increasing importance.
Open this file and display on any Interactive Whiteboard, or computer device, and click through each slides, designed to structure and guide the teacher through the lesson. This resource aims to support, encourage and help lead healthy whole class discussions and reflections in this ever-changing digital era, ensuring curriculum coverage as detailed below.
At the end, all students need is access to some paper or a book, and colouring materials, to follow the prompt to then complete their own poster activity at the end (this is not provided, but prompted on the last slide: own books or paper needed). This helps to consolidate and share individual student learning, and provides teachers with evidence of learning. Ready to use your class immediately!
How does this help you in your classroom today?
Students are using the internet daily but often lack clear, explicit teaching around safe behaviour, privacy, and recognising risk.
This can be a tricky subject for teachers! It can be difficult to navigate this topic in a considered, careful manner, while ensuring the seriousness is not downplayed.
This resource provides the prompts and framework to teach these tricky concepts clearly, comprehensively and in an age-appropriate manner; while being respectful of the range of knowledge, experience and opinions, students in our classrooms today bring from their differing home dynamics.
How do I use this resource in my classroom?
Open the PowerPoint and teach directly from the slides
Deliver as one full lesson or split across 2–3 shorter sessions
Use the built-in prompts to pause and guide class discussion
Encourage students to share ideas, examples, and experiences
Finish with the poster activity as a reflection, assessment, or display task
What is on the slides?
Introduction to online safety and responsible digital use
Identifying safer websites
Recognising suspicious or unsafe online activity
What to do when unsure
Building a personal online safety toolkit
Making safe digital choices
Final poster task to consolidate learning
How do students engage?
guided class discussions
scenario-based thinking (safe vs unsafe examples)
teacher-led questioning prompts
whole-class reflection
optional group, pair, or independent poster task
What file type and size is this?
This 16-slide PowerPoint is a secured, flattened PPTX designed to be clear, low-prep, and easy to teach from. Interactive and discussion-based, it ends with a simple poster task to consolidate student learning.
Australian Curriculum links and year levels:
*Digital Technologies (Years 3-4): ACTDIP013, *ACTDIP014. Health (Years 3-4): ACPPS036, ACPPS039
Supports Health (Personal, Social and Community Health) and Digital Technologies for teaching online safety and responsible technology use.
