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Halloween Internet Safety Activity Simulation Game Cyber Security Grades 5-8

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It's the week of "free" VR games, candy-map RSVP texts and $1.99 prize shipping. Spooky Inbox drops your students into Sam's inbox for one Halloween week - and every seasonal scam is waiting behind the door.

This is the same playable inbox-simulation format that made Phishing Lab a #1 result for "phishing email activity" on TPT - now in costume. Eight real-looking messages, three choices each, and after every answer students see what the scammer actually does next. One message is a genuinely safe school email, so they learn calibration, not paranoia.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

  • Playable web app - 8-message simulation with live safety score, auto-save, 4-digit PIN resume and a teacher dashboard that writes one row per student into Google Sheets

  • Printable backup - student worksheet + answer key with the teaching script, so it also runs on paper with zero devices

  • Teacher quick-start - deploy in ~5 minutes with one Google account, or double-click the file and run it offline

  • 3 ranked endings - Spell-Proof Sentinel / Still Learning the Tricks / Tricked Week - replayable until the whole class clears it

THE 8 TRAPS SAM MEETS

  1. The "free Halloween VR game" claim link (look-alike domain + midnight deadline)

  2. The trunk-or-treat text that wants your home address and a costume photo

  3. The "YOUR DEVICE IS CURSED" scareware pop-up with a 5-minute timer

  4. The in-game friend sending a haunted skin as an .exe

  5. One REAL school assembly email - the calibration message

  6. The netflx-style "3 months free spooky season" password confirm

  7. The Halloween Fairy contest that wants a selfie and your trick-or-treat route

  8. The VR headset that costs "only $1.99 shipping"

PERFECT FOR

  • October lessons that teachers actually schedule this week - and a debrief that works all year

  • Sub plans, Halloween party slots, advisory and family-night demos

  • Grades 5-8: game skins, streaming freebies and candy contests are exactly their world

Part of the Lab series: pair it with Phishing Lab (Gr 6-9, the bait), Privacy Lab (Gr 4-6, the share), Password Lab (Gr 5-8, the keys) - and there is a FREE Sampler of the engine in this store if you want to try the format first.

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Meet the Seller

Every resource in this store is written, designed and checked by a human - then printed or projected in a real room before it is ever listed. Expect clear layouts, low-ink printing, answer keys, teacher guides and editable files, plus free updates whenever a pack improves. The catalogue will keep growing across subjects and age bands; the promise stays the same: open it and teach. Questions are answered personally.

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