🛡️ Phase 4 - Discovery
🛡️ Creation
⏱ 4 minutes
Task 8 - My One-Minute Digital Shield
A good safety rule should be clear enough to use when you feel excited, rushed or worried.
Step 1 - Fill in your three-part shield
🧠 THINK before sharing
🔍 CHECK messages and sources
🔒 PROTECT accounts and privacy
Step 2 - One realistic action for next week
One small action I'll try next week is…
🔒 Describe the action without naming a real account, app or password.
Step 3 - Pair exchange
Bridge to Phase 5 - Propagation
Your shield is ready. Now it's time to share the wonder with the class.
What happens in Task 8
A 4-minute Phase 4 - Discovery activity. Students build a personal Digital Shield across three parts - THINK before sharing, CHECK messages and sources, PROTECT accounts and privacy - add one realistic action for next week without naming a real account, then respond to a simulated partner's clarifying question.
🎯 Learning objectives
To connect a risk to a protective action and explain why the action helps, reorganising evidence gathered across the lesson into a principle students can remember and apply.
♿ SEN Adaptations
- Drawing, icons or oral/audio responses accepted for every section
- Sentence starters provided for each shield section
- A quiet participation option is always available
🖨️ No-Tech Format
- Students draw a three-part shield on paper
- Action written or drawn without naming a real account
- Partner exchange done verbally in pairs