Digital Decisions: Group Chats, Social Media & Online Pressure

Digital Decisions: Group Chats, Social Media & Online Pressure is a ready-to-use digital citizenship and decision-making curriculum for grades 6–8. Through nine scenario-based lessons, students learn to navigate group chats, social media, texting, screenshots, online conflict, phone use, digital reputation, and other everyday digital situations.

Through realistic scenarios, discussion, reflection, and practical decision-making tools, students practice how to pause, consider consequences, read social situations, and choose how to respond.

The course includes 9 scenario-based lessons:

• Lesson 0- Pause Before You Post (full editable version of the free sample lesson)
• Lesson 1- What Makes Digital Communication Different?
• Lesson 2- Group Chat Pressure & the Need to Belong
• Lesson 3- Screenshots, Privacy & Digital Permanence
• Lesson 4- Phone Pressure, Notifications & Focus
• Lesson 5- How Online Conflict Grows
• Lesson 6- When You Realize You Were Wrong
• Lesson 7- Left Out — Deciding How to Respond
• Lesson 8- Your Digital Reputation & Future Self

What’s Included

Each lesson includes everything an educator needs to prepare, teach, and reinforce the skill:

• Lesson at a Glance — a one-page overview of objectives, timing, materials, and lesson flow
• Teacher's Guide — detailed facilitation guidance, discussion prompts, sample language, educational standards alignment and implementation notes
• Editable PowerPoint Presentation — ready-to-use slides with presenter notes
• Student Worksheet — printable and editable student reflection and application activities
• Sample Answers — suggested responses to support preparation and discussion
• Scenario Cards — additional practice situations for individual, partner, small-group, or whole-class use
• Scenario Video — a short visual scenario that introduces the lesson topic

File Formats

Materials are provided in a combination of:

• • Editable PowerPoint files
  • Editable Word documents
  • Print-ready PDFs
  • MP4 scenario videos

Digital Decisions: Group Chats, Social Media & Online Pressure is grounded in research-supported principles from social-emotional learning, self-regulation, perspective-taking, and decision-making.

Grade level: 6–8
Format: Digital curriculum
Licenses: View Product License and Terms page

Single-Educator License: The Single-Educator License is for one named educator.

School-Wide License: For educators and authorized staff at one named physical school campus. Multiple schools or district-wide use requires additional licenses.

District-Wide License: Contact us. 

Materials may not be posted publicly, resold, or redistributed outside the selected license.                                  

Delivery: Electronic download; no physical product