Resources for educators

Kick off the year with a focus on online safety.

Whether you’re working with early years, school students or at a tertiary institution, Safer Internet Day is your chance to have meaningful conversations that help young people stay safer online.

From activities and posters to social posts and ready-to-share messages, you’ll find resources on this page to help you get involved.

On this page:

• Resources for early years
• Resources for schools
• Resources for tertiary institutions
• Ready-to-use message for social

Swoosh and Glide materials can be used to teach young children how to make good choices when they are online. Read the picture book to the class or read along with the video.

Bring online safety into your early childhood centre

Explore age-appropriate resources designed to help early learners (aged 0-5 years) build healthy online habits and support educators, parents, and carers in guiding them.

• Under 5s booklet for parents and carers – Share this booklet with parents and carers. It is designed for families with practical advice on how to keep young children safe online.
• Checklist for early learning services – This checklist is designed to help service managers and directors of early learning services throughout Australia assess their online environments for the safety of their children, educators and families.

Use these resources to spark online safety conversations with your students. Click or tap on the button to open and download each resource.

Activities

Select from eSafety’s classroom resources to engage your students on Safer Internet Day:

• Online safety classroom agreement – Co-create with your primary and secondary students to highlight and encourage safe and respectful online behaviours.
• Online boundaries and consent – Support primary students as they learn about online consent and permission, and how to define online boundaries.
• Conversation starters – Start an online safety discussion going in your classroom and send home the conversation starters so students can use them with their parents or carers.
• Select an activity for students to take the lead in online safety, for Foundation to Year 3, Year 4 to 8, or Year 9 to 12.

Bring online safety into every classroom

Visit the eSafety schools’ hub, where you will find key online safety resources for Australian schools, including:

• Training for educational professionals – Online learning from early years to tertiary, provided by eSafety’s expert education and training team.
• Classroom resources – Select the education level and topic to find resources suitable for your students.
• Toolkit for Schools – All the information and resources you need to create safer online environments in your school.
• Trusted eSafety Providers – Find an online safety education provider for your school.

Display posters around campus and share the digital signage on screens. There’s even a presentation you can use with staff or students. Click or tap on the button to open and download each resource.

Promote positive online interactions in your institution

The tertiary hub includes resources to help tertiary communities be safer online by:

• building greater awareness of online safety risks
• providing guidance on how to prevent, prepare for and respond to online safety incidents
• supporting student and staff wellbeing.

We’ve made it easy to spread the word with a message you can drop straight onto your social media.