Digital Helpers and My Information — Foundation

Introduce the physical parts and programs that work together in a digital system. Students choose a tool for a classroom purpose, make a useful object picture or message, check it with an audience and explain a change. Character cards help children recognise personal information and its owner. Photo and voice cards develop the idea of personal ownership without asking students to disclose their data.

Each of the ten lessons has its own editable PowerPoint. The Unit Plan brings together the teaching sequence, preparation, access choices, printable activities, answers and practical assessment. Eight core lessons complete the essential learning; lessons nine and ten are optional extensions.

What's included

• Ten separate editable lesson PowerPoints, 11 slides each (110 slides):

1. Tools with a purpose

2. Parts and programs

3. A picture for a reason

4. Voice and ownership

5. Ask before using my information

6. Choose the best helper

7. Make and test a useful message

8. Show the helper and protect the person

9. Two ways to send the same idea — optional extension

10. Digital helper museum — optional extension

• Separate editable Digital Helpers quiz: 24 slides, including instructions, ten questions with feedback, reflection and closing.
• Full Unit Plan PDF: 43 pages, including the clean contents page, teacher overview, preparation/access/privacy guidance, ten 50-minute lesson plans and quiz/assessment guidance.
• Two colour displays: Digital helpers; A picture for a reason.
• Eight illustrated Digital helper case cards across two colour pages, plus a teacher key.
• Partner check mat: a reusable trace-and-check page for explaining a purpose, observing what happens and discussing a supported change.
• Ten low-ink worksheets, each with its matching red-answer page (20 pages):

1. Tools with a purpose

2. Parts and programs

3. A picture for a reason

4. Voice and ownership

5. Ask before using my information

6. Choose the best helper

7. Make and test a useful message

8. Show the helper and protect the person

9. Two ways to send the same idea — optional extension

10. Digital helper museum — optional extension

• Make a useful object message: individual practical assessment brief.
• Individual evidence record: four criteria, space for observed evidence, judgement and the next teaching step.
• Digital helpers: criterion rubric, with Not yet demonstrated, Demonstrated and Transfers descriptions for each of four criteria.
• Full combined Preview PDF: all 177 pages/slides in teaching order, with a clean first contents page and red PREVIEW marks on the remaining pages.
• Separate clean Table of Contents JPEG.

Learning focus

• Recognise that a digital system combines physical hardware and software for a purpose.
• Explore approved picture, drawing and audio tools with an adult.
• Choose and test an object message for an audience.
• Identify personal information and whose information it is.
• Explain ownership of their own information without sharing real personal details.
• Use an individual practical task and separate evidence for each assessment criterion.

Access and differentiation

Eight core lessons of approximately 50 minutes complete the essential teaching and individual assessment. Two optional 50-minute lessons extend completed learning. Use one or more sessions per week to suit your class; the unit is not tied to a calendar term.

Provide a school-approved shared tablet or computer with drawing, camera/photo and audio software, plus a teacher-managed account/device and local class storage. An offline route is possible. Prepare approved teacher-created character clips or non-identifying object sounds; audio recordings are not supplied in this download. No student consumer account, public posting or subscription is required.

Students make an object picture or short object message, explain its purpose, identify physical hardware and software, test it with an audience and describe a useful change. Character cards and my-photo/my-voice cards support personal-information teaching without asking children to disclose their real data.

Teachers read prompts aloud. Students may point, draw, use symbols, speak, demonstrate or use an adult-supported action. Record each student's actual use of a digital system. Worksheets and the quiz support learning but do not replace individual practical observation. Where device access is missing, arrange a later authentic observation rather than treat missing access as low attainment.

Formats and answers

Teaching content: 43 Unit Plan PDF pages + 110 lesson slides + 24 quiz slides = 177 pages/slides.

The 177-page Preview repeats that teaching content; it is not counted as additional teaching material.

The delivery contains 11 editable PPTX files, two PDFs, three listing-copy TXT files and one Table of Contents JPG (17 files).

All student worksheets and their paired answer pages are inside the Unit Plan PDF. Answers are red and labelled as answers or possible answers; open-response answers are examples, with alternative accurate responses accepted. Case-card guidance, quiz feedback and the assessment rubric are included.

An application that opens PowerPoint PPTX files and a PDF reader are needed. The printable student pages are not editable text documents.

Teacher benefits

The matched teacher plans and independent lesson files make the sequence easy to follow. Red worksheet answers, a case-card key and quiz feedback support discussion and checking. The evidence record and criterion rubric distinguish observed understanding from a missing device opportunity. Access guidance includes adult reading, pointing, symbols, drawing and supported practical actions.

Digital product and licence

This is a digital teaching resource. No physical item will be shipped. Use the resource under Sukindi's purchase and licence terms. Do not resell, redistribute or publicly post the resource files.