Turn digital citizenship and internet safety into a game students actually play. Privacy Lab: What Should Lina Share? is an interactive web-app simulation for Grades 4-6: students become Lina, facing a week of real-looking posts, quizzes, app permissions and game chats. Every choice earns Safety Points or springs a trap, with instant teaching feedback. Live score, auto-save, and a teacher tracking sheet - no accounts, no logins, no district IT ticket.

WHY TEACHERS LOVE THIS

• Consequences, not lectures - wrong shares show exactly what a stranger can do with that one detail, then a 4-step recovery drill

• Real judgement practice - one message is a LEGITIMATE school form on purpose, so kids learn calibration, not paranoia

• Automatic tracking - every student lands in YOUR Google Sheet: score, progress, debrief word count, timestamps, one row per student

• Auto-save - a refresh never loses a student's run

• 3 ranked endings (Master Detective / Apprentice Detective / Too Much Shared) replayable for a higher rank

WHAT'S INCLUDED

• The web app (3 files + a 5-minute copy-paste deploy guide - no coding); it also runs offline as a plain file on any device

• 8 realistic scenarios: game stranger asking for your school, contest form hunting home addresses, sneaker photo framing the house number, flashlight app grabbing contacts and location, viral quiz demanding location, the fake-neighbor selfie request, a legitimate school opt-in form, and the class-photo directory problem

• Printable version: student worksheet, answer key with teaching notes, teacher quick-start

• Preview PDF so you can check the reading level in seconds

THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE

1. Sign in with name, school email, class period and a made-up 4-digit PIN (never a real password)

2. Open Lina's inbox: 8 moments arrive one by one

3. Choose: share, allow, send or refuse - the app scores every decision live (max 17)

4. Write a 75-word debrief (fun to share vs findable) with a live word counter; it will not submit until it is real

5. Get an ending rank + a printable report they can take home

PERFECT FOR

Digital citizenship, computer class, advisory/SEL, health, library media, sub plans, homeschool - and the Gr 4-6 gap left by our Phishing Lab (Gr 6-9). Pair them as the two halves of an internet-safety unit.

BUILT-IN FEATURES

Server-checked debrief length and submission locking · teacher mode with server-verified password, live dashboard and CSV export · paste-blocking on the reflection box · resume after crash or refresh · works fully offline on paper too.

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