Ethical technology use and digital citizenship are essential Computer Science topics for Grade 7 students who share information, communicate online, and use other people's creative work. This printable worksheet explores how everyday digital decisions affect privacy, intellectual property, respectful communication, and the safety of online communities. Students work through realistic digital dilemmas and consider how to respond responsibly when their actions could affect others.

Explore Ethical Choices in Real Digital Situations

Students examine situations involving private photographs, copied images, hurtful messages, misleading information, and disagreements online. Rather than focusing only on rules, the activities ask students to evaluate choices, consider consequences, and explain what responsible digital citizenship looks like in practice.

The reading passage, Ethical Choices in a Connected World, explains privacy, responsibility, intellectual property, and respectful communication. Students learn why finding a file online does not automatically grant permission to reuse it, when creator credit may be required, and how users can respond to harmful posts or incorrect information.

What Students Practise

• Digital dilemma dialogue: Consider an ethical situation and think through responsible responses.
• Matching pairs: Connect related concepts and terminology.
• Cloze passage: Complete a contextual paragraph using key vocabulary, including privacy, license, respect, responsibility, citizen, and ethical.
• Labeled diagram: Work with a visual representation of ethical technology use.
• Reading comprehension: Interpret the passage and apply its ideas to digital citizenship situations.
• Multiple-choice questions: Evaluate appropriate responses to privacy concerns, intellectual property, hurtful messages, and misinformation.
• True-or-false statements: Check understanding of permissions, respectful communication, and responsible online behaviour.
• Short-answer questions: Explain ethical responses and justify why giving credit matters.
• Extended written response: Analyse a connected digital dilemma involving a photograph, a copied image, and an angry online reply.

Practical Classroom Use

Use this Grade 7 digital citizenship worksheet during a Computer Science lesson, a digital responsibility unit, or a discussion about safe and respectful online participation. Students can complete the reading and written activities independently, discuss the digital dilemma with classmates, or use the extended response to explain their reasoning. The scenarios also provide starting points for classroom conversations about permission, accountability, and the effects of online choices on a school community.

Included with Your Resource

• Printable student worksheet covering the activities described above.
• Separate teacher guide PDF containing learning objectives, teaching tips, discussion questions, and common mistakes.

Curriculum information: The resource is identified as General rather than aligned to a named curriculum standard. It is designed for Grade 7 Computer Science instruction focused on ethical technology use and digital citizenship.

Help students move beyond recognising right and wrong by practising how to explain, evaluate, and improve their digital decisions. This resource combines reading, vocabulary, visual interpretation, scenario analysis, and extended writing around the ethical choices students may encounter in connected environments.