Awareness Activities for School, Families,
and Community

Have students brainstorm and write a cyber safety and security tip sheep, covering the topics and issues raised in CyberSmart! lessons. Encourage students to take home their tips sheets and share them with their families.

Each month, have students write and record a cyber safety and security awareness message for your school morning announcements or school video broadcast. Encourage them to be creative in adding sound effects or music in order to make their messages memorable.

Invite students to design their own cyber safety and security posters. Ask some teachers, administrators, and parents to judge the entries. Ask your principal or business leaders in your community to have the winning posters printed. Then distribute the printed posters to store owners to display.

Have your students write and take a survey of all the students in your school to find out what they know and don't know about cyber safety and security. Have them collect the data anonymously and report their results to school administrators by grade.

Have your students develop and teach a lesson about cyber safety and security to the younger students in your school or district. Allow students to develop lesson plans and share them with the teachers of the grades they wish to teach. After they receive feedback, have students revise their lesson plans and then teach them.

Have students brainstorm and write a cyber safety and security tip sheet, covering the topics and issues raised in CyberSmart! lessons. Encourage students to take home their tip sheets and share them with their families.

Each month, have students write and record a cyber safety or security awareness message for your school morning announcements or school video broadcast. Encourage them to be creative in adding sound effects or music in order to make their messages memorable. Consider arranging for a local radio station to broadcast the announcements to the community.

Have students review your school's written disciplinary policy and analyze whether and where it addresses cyberbullying.

Have students use their creativity to remind all the members of your school community to change their passwords at least once every six months. Consider original cartoons, posters, music jingles, and e-mail messages.

Have students write a series of quiz questions that other students, families, and members of the community can take to find out how cyber safety savvy they are.

Have students write a series of cyber safety and security messages that can regularly remind other students of ways to keep to keep safe online and protect their private information. Distribute the messages as flyers, morning announcements, on a prominent bulletin board near the entrance to the school, or on the school Web site.

Invite students to design their own cyber safety and security posters. Ask some teachers, administrators, and parents to judge the entries. Ask your principal or business leaders in your community to have the winning posters printed. Then distribute the printed posters to store owners to display.

Have students write and take a survey of all the students in your school to find out what they know and don't know about cyber safety and security. Have them collect the data anonymously and report their results to school administrators by grade.

Have students prepare questions about cyber security for your district's information technology manager or coordinator. Set up a meeting to allow students to ask their questions and have a follow-up discussion.

Local, state, and federal laws protect some of the data in your school's computer network. Have students find out what these laws say and what the consequences of breaking them might be. Publish students' findings for the rest of the school community to read.

Have students develop and teach a lesson about cyber safety and security to the younger students in your school or district. Allow students to develop lesson plans and share them with the teachers of the grades they wish to teach. After students receive feedback, allow them to revise their lesson plans and then teach them.

Have students brainstorm and write a cyber safety and security tip sheet, covering the topics and issues raised in CyberSmart! lessons. Encourage students to take home their tip sheets and share them with their families.

Have students create informational flyers to tell parents, guardians, and community members what they need to know about keeping their computers and private identity information safe.

Have students use their creativity to remind all the members of your school community to change their passwords at least once every six months. Consider original cartoons, posters, music jingles, and e-mail messages. Arrange to submit the reminders to a community newspaper as a regular feature.

Have students write a series of quiz questions that other students, families, and members of the community can take to find out how cyber safety savvy they are.

Have students write a series of cyber safety and security messages that can regularly remind other students of ways to keep safe online and protect their private information. Distribute the messages as flyers, morning announcements, or on a prominent bulletin board near the entrance to the school.

Invite students to design their own cyber safety and security awareness posters. Ask some teachers, administrators, and parents to judge the entries. Ask your principal or business leader in your community to have the winning poster printed. Then distribute the printed poster to store owners to display.

Collaborate and publish (in print or online) a code of ethics that explains the responsibilities of students who witness other students exhibiting risky online behaviors or have knowledge of security breaches on their school network.