INTERNET SAFETY & ONLINE SAFETY – Cyberbullying Small Group Counseling

Are your students equipped with the skills they need to navigate the digital world safely, responsibly, and confidently? In today’s tech-savvy world, digital citizenship is no longer optional – it’s essential. Our Social Media Smarts Workbook is a comprehensive and engaging student workbook that explores internet and online safety and explores cyberbullying. This workbook has been designed to teach upper elementary and middle school students how to make smart, safe, and respectful choices online.

Designed for Grades 4–8 (Ages 9–14), our resource supports students learning foundational digital safety skills and older students engaging in deeper reflection, dilemmas, and role-play activities that promote critical thinking and responsible online behavior. Perfect for school counselors, health teachers, digital literacy units, SEL lessons, and media education programs, this ready-to-use digital citizenship resource empowers students to reflect on their own online habits, decode tricky digital dilemmas, and build lifelong online safety skills.

What’s Included in our Social Media Smarts Workbook?

This workbook is divided into six individual lessons. You can choose to use each lesson in isolation or scaffold through the lessons one by one. The six lessons include:

1.All About Social Media – Introduces students to the purpose, power, and pitfalls of social media, encourages critical thinking about online presence, likes, followers, and personal boundaries, supports media literacy and responsible digital behavior

2.Digital Slime Challenge – A fun, interactive activity to explore how online comments and content stick, promotes reflection on the impact of words and digital footprints, encourages respectful and kind online communication

3.Digital Dilemmas – Realistic scenario-based questions to help students make ethical and safe choices online, strengthens decision-making, digital empathy, and critical thinking skills

4.DM Decode Challenge – Helps students interpret tone, intent, and meaning in private messages (DMs), builds communication skills, emotional intelligence, and online conflict resolution

5.Role Playing Scenarios – Encourages discussion and problem-solving through dramatized social media situations, ideal for group work, counseling sessions, or classroom discussions, fosters empathy and digital responsibility

6.Worksheets & Activities – Printable and digital-ready resources to reinforce learning, includes reflection sheets, response journals, online safety tips, and more, great for portfolios, assessment, or parent-teacher conferences

Helping students grow confident, kind, and safe online.