Digital Citizenship & Online Privacy Worksheets for Grades 9–12

Help high school students build practical digital citizenship and online privacy skills through realistic scenarios, evidence-based analysis, and decision-making activities. This resource guides students in evaluating digital footprints, privacy settings, social media behavior, audience awareness, consent, online security, and digital risk.

Students Will Practice

Identifying public, personal, and private or sensitive information
Analyzing privacy settings, usernames, posts, and digital profiles
Recognizing unintended information disclosure
Evaluating audience, context, location sharing, and predictable routines
Understanding screenshots, reposting, and digital permanence
Applying consent when sharing content involving others
Evaluating online security and privacy choices
Ranking digital risks using evidence
Distinguishing reasonable concerns from exaggerated claims
Recommending safer and more responsible digital choices

What’s Included

Teacher guide
5 instructional anchor charts
Sequential digital citizenship worksheets
Realistic fictional digital profiles and online scenarios
Evidence-based risk analysis activities
Digital profile redesign and decision-making tasks
Culminating digital identity investigation
Answer keys with explanations and sample responses

Classroom Uses

This resource works well for digital citizenship, media literacy, ELA, technology, advisory, health, and career-readiness instruction. Use it for whole-class lessons, independent practice, small-group activities, homework, formative assessment, intervention, enrichment, or review.

Students develop real-world digital literacy skills through fictional scenarios, allowing them to analyze online behavior and privacy issues without sharing their own personal information.

Grade Level: Grades 9–12
Resource Type: Worksheets, Anchor Charts, Activities, and Answer Keys
File Type: PDF

Add this digital citizenship and online privacy resource to your secondary classroom to help students become more thoughtful, responsible, privacy-aware, and informed digital participants.