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Data Privacy

Tenth graders learn to protect their personal data online — using strong passwords, reviewing privacy settings, and thinking before granting permissions — versus habits that quietly hand over their information. Sorting the two builds real digital-privacy skills.

Grade 10Data Privacy55 minutes1 class periodMedia Literacy · CCSSExplicit teaching4 StandardsCCSS / NAMLE
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Lesson at a Glance

Everything you need before the bell rings

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to…

  • ✓Protect your data.
  • ✓Tell protecting from sharing.
  • ✓Sort the habits.
  • ✓Guard your privacy.
Essential Question

Every tap and permission can share your data. Which habits protect your privacy — and which give it away?

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Interactive Task
Sort It · Interactive

Protects Privacy or Shares Data?

Project this and sort each habit into Protects Privacy or Shares Your Data.

🔒 Sort each — protects privacy or shares your data?Try it
🛡️ Protects Privacy
⚠️ Shares Your Data
Tap a habit, then tap a box.
The Lesson · Literacy Flow (Hook · Explore · Practice · Apply · Reflect)

55 minutes, five moves

Tap any phase to open the teacher moves and student actions.

1

Hook — Who Has Your Data?

6 min

Every tap can share your data — which habits protect your privacy?

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Show a permission pop-up.
  • Ask what it collects.
  • Set the goal.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Look.
  • Wonder.
  • Get ready.
2

Explore — Data Privacy

13 min

Students explore.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Send students to the sorter.
  • Sort each one.
  • Explain each.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Sort.
  • Say.
  • Explain.
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Practice — Practice

15 min

Students practice.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Name a protective habit.
  • Name a risky one.
  • Explain the risk.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Name it.
  • Name it.
  • Explain.
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Apply — Apply

15 min

Students apply.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Audit an app’s permissions.
  • Tighten one setting.
  • Share your change.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Audit.
  • Tighten.
  • Share.
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Reflect — Reflect

6 min

Students close.

👩‍🏫 Teacher Moves

  • Name a protective habit.
  • Name a risky one.
  • Complete the exit ticket.

🎒 Student Actions

  • Name one.
  • Name one.
  • Complete the exit ticket.
Standards Alignment

Built to the standards you report on

Aligned to the Common Core ELA Standards (informational literacy) & NAMLE media-literacy competencies.

CCSS
W.9-10.6

Use technology responsibly.

CCSS
SL.9-10.1

Discuss & reflect.

NAMLE
Act

Protect personal data.

CCSS
RI.9-10.7

Analyze info across media.

Differentiation

One lesson, every learner

Multilingual Learners

ELL / EMERGING READERS
  • Habit cards.
  • Sentence frame: “___ my data.”
  • Use examples.

Support & Access

IEP / 504
  • Start with strong password vs accept-all.
  • Sort one at a time.
  • Use examples.

Stretch & Extend

GIFTED / EARLY FINISHERS
  • Audit three apps.
  • Read a privacy policy.
  • Make a privacy checklist.
Materials

What to gather

  • 📽️Screen / board
  • 🔒Habit cards
  • 💻Protects Privacy or Shares Data?
  • 📋A privacy checklist
  • ✏️Notebooks
  • 🎫Exit-ticket slips
Vocabulary

Key terms — hover for a quick definition

data privacyprotecting your informationpersonal datainfo about youpermissionaccess you grantprivacy settingscontrols over your datatrackingfollowing your activitylocationwhere you areconsentagreeing to shareprotectto keep safe
Evaluate

Exit Ticket

Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.

QUESTION 1
Name one habit that protects your data privacy.
Using strong passwords, reviewing privacy settings, or limiting permissions.
QUESTION 2
Name one habit that shares your data.
Accepting every permission or posting your live location publicly.
QUESTION 3
Why think before granting location access?
It can share where you are in real time.

Reflect: data privacy.

Have students name two habits that protect their personal data online. A printable privacy sheet is in the ELA library.

Study · Flashcards

Study the key terms

Tap a card to flip it, then rate whether you knew it. Built from this lesson’s vocabulary.

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Practice · Quiz

Check your understanding

A quick self-check with instant feedback, drawn from this lesson’s key terms.

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Practice · Worksheet

Printable worksheet

A print-and-go review sheet with a built-in answer key. Tap “Show answer key” to reveal answers, or print the clean version for students.

🖨️ Data PrivacyPrint
Name: ________________________
Date: ____________

Part A · Write the word that matches each meaning

Word bank: consent, data privacy, location, permission, personal data, privacy settings, protect, tracking
  1. access you grant
  2. where you are
  3. info about you
  4. following your activity
  5. protecting your information
  6. controls over your data
  7. agreeing to share
  8. to keep safe

Part B · Show what you learned

  1. Name one habit that protects your data privacy.
  2. Name one habit that shares your data.
  3. Why think before granting location access?
Answer key — Part A: 1) permission · 2) location · 3) personal data · 4) tracking · 5) data privacy · 6) privacy settings · 7) consent · 8) protect
Part B: 1) Using strong passwords, reviewing privacy settings, or limiting permissions. 2) Accepting every permission or posting your live location publicly. 3) It can share where you are in real time.