Understanding Your Digital Footprint
A Grade 6 social studies worksheet on understanding digital footprints, their permanence, and impact on online safety and privacy.
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Understanding Your Digital Footprint
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet will help you understand what a digital footprint is and why it's important.
1. What is a digital footprint?
The amount of time you spend online.
The trail of data you leave behind when you use the internet.
The physical marks you leave on a computer keyboard.
The number of friends you have on social media.
2. Which of the following activities contributes to your digital footprint?
Reading a book offline.
Posting a comment on a YouTube video.
Playing a board game with friends.
Drawing a picture on paper.
1. Once something is posted online, it can be very difficult to remove completely.
True
False
2. Your digital footprint only includes things you post yourself, not what others post about you.
True
False
1. Your digital footprint is like a trail of your online activities.
2. Before posting something online, it's important to think about whether it is , kind, and necessary.
3. Always keep your personal information, like your address or phone number, online.
1. Give two examples of how a positive digital footprint can benefit you in the future.
2. Explain why it is important to be careful about what you share online.