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What are 12-13 year olds doing online

Understanding what students are doing online is a valuable starting point for teaching cybersafety. This series of videos combined with the Cybercitizen profiles provide teachers with a comprehensive view of their students’ online lives.

Lesson plans and Units of Work

Comprehensive units of work provide activities for use in the classroom. These activities are designed to build a range of skills, knowledge and behaviours in students that will help to keep them safe online. Teachers can choose activities and sequence them based on student needs.

Multimedia teaching resources

The ACMA has web-based teaching resources available for use by teachers. These resources include supporting lesson plans and student handouts.

Let's fight it together  

Let's Fight it Together

A video resource designed to help young people, teachers and parents understand and manage cyberbullying and its impact. It has a guide which contains essential preparation and follow-up activities for schools.

CyberNetrix  

CyberNetrix

The CyberNetrix computer-based activities have been designed for secondary students from years seven to nine as a cross-curricula, cross-year level resource. There is a teacher guide and 11 downloadable student activities.

Netbasics Episode 1  

NetBasics

NetBasics comprises a set of 11 animated episodes that follow the Jones Family through a typical day of online activity. Each episode is designed to show how users’ computer activities can expose them to a number of security vulnerabilities, and reinforce positive steps they can take to protect their computers and data.

Behind the news  

Behind the News  (BtN)

BtN is aimed at upper primary and lower secondary students with the goal of helping them understand current issues and events in their world.

Play Posti  

POSTi Network

POSTi Network is a digital educational resource for upper primary students designed to raise awareness of the implications of inhabiting the cyber environment.

Cybersmart blog

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Order resources

Free cybersafety resources for schools, parents and libraries.

Outreach 

Book an Outreach presentation for staff, students and parents.