NEW for 2026 RSHE DfE Guidelines - In this lesson students will learn about the dangers of chatbots, trusting AI advice without fact checking, the worrying increase of people developing affections or even falling in love with chatbots, the rising belief in some online conspiracy theories, and how chatbots can be programmed to give harmful advice and promote products without a user realising. There is a large focus on digital literacy, with real life case studies, clip tasks, literacy-based analysis tasks and much more. Students will learn how to be a discerning consumer of information as stipulated by the 2026 RSHE Guidelines from the DfE.
All editable and includes lesson plan.
All taken from the EC Publishing 2026 Complete Secondary PSHE Package, available at our Tes store and at the EC Publishing website.
A selection of 2025 UK Christmas Adverts
A very Merry Grinchmas - Asda
The Unexpected Guest (BFG) - Sainsbury’s
Where Love Lives - John Lewis
That’s What Makes It Christmas - Tesco
There are questions and tasks under five areas:
Character
Story
Setting
Sound
Colour
Plus extension tasks (more in depth)
Inspired by @Miss_S_Says 2021 Task Mats. I will update this resource as I add to it. I hope these help you to enjoy some digital literacy this Christmas.
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**Digital Literacy Task Cards – Theme 17: Cyberbullying & Online Harassment **
Empower your students to stand up for themselves and others online with this essential set of Digital Literacy Task Cards focused on Cyberbullying & Online Harassment! This resource helps students recognize, respond to, and prevent hurtful behaviour in digital spaces.
Perfect for class discussions, group work, or independent learning
Develops key digital literacy skills: empathy, online safety, and digital citizenship
Includes opportunities for research, discussion, and presentations
What’s Inside:
10 interactive, discussion-friendly task cards
Real-world scenarios that challenge students to think about how to handle online bullying
Research–Discuss–Present prompts that build collaboration and deeper understanding
Why Use Digital Literacy Task Cards?
Foster critical thinking about online safety and respectful behavior
Teach students to recognize and respond to cyberbullying
Encourage collaborative learning and group discussions
Integrate seamlessly into your existing curriculum or digital literacy program
Theme 17: Cyberbullying & Online Harassment – Topics Covered
What cyberbullying is and why it’s harmful
Recognizing signs of online harassment
Responding to mean or hurtful messages
The importance of empathy and kindness
Reporting bullying to trusted adults
Being an upstander instead of a bystander
Staying safe and respectful in digital spaces
Teacher Tip: Use these task cards as discussion starters, group projects, or independent reflections. Pair with quizzes and journals to build a comprehensive digital literacy unit!
Download the Cyberbullying & Online Harassment Task Cards today and help your students build a safer, kinder digital community!
Importance of Digital literacy . A fully-resourced editable Careers PowerPoint lesson (1 hour +) which can be used by teachers to deliver a detailed workshop / session on this topic.
Learning Outcomes:
“To be able to explain what digital literacy is To understand the importance of digital literacy To consider how we can improve our digital literacy skills”
Key terms
Digital literacy, Phishing, Hacked, Digitally Savvy
**Homework Extension Suggestion **
Find an article on the BBC news website about a cyber attack. From the article, pick out the parts that show where the person or company showcased poor digitally literacy skills. What could they have done differently to prevent the cyber attack?
Each Lesson Pack Contains:
1 Fully Editable Careers PowerPoint (Learning Outcomes, Confidence Checkers, Assessment of Learning, Variety of Tasks, Video Embedded URL Clips, Engaging Premium Quality Slides, Extra Support Websites, Challenging & Thoughtful Questioning)
Assessment Opportunity (Confidence Checker)
The lesson includes a detailed PowerPoint, variety of student facing tasks and comprehension tasks These resources have been designed to be engaging, informative and pick up and teach.
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Media literacy + Digital resilience explained for KS5 Students. Careers + PSHE Lesson designed by a L6 Qualified Careers Guidance Leader and PSHE Expert. Editable 18+ slide PowerPoint Lesson. Lesson includes: Lesson Assessment, Student Resources, Signposting to extra support services. Bonus Homework Activity and links to our videos and much more.
Learning Outcomes:
To understand online safety
To know when & how to challenge online behaviour
To understand what media literacy is, particularly critical media literacy
Some Key Terms Covered
Preventative measure, digital resilience, media literacy
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Each Lesson Pack Contains:
1 Fully Editable PowerPoint (Learning Outcomes, Confidence Checkers, Assessment of Learning, Variety of Tasks, Video Embedded URL Clips, Engaging Premium Quality Slides, Extra Support careers Websites, Challenging & Thoughtful Questioning)
Student Worksheet(s) are included with some lessons
Homework Activity
Assessment Opportunity (Confidence Checker)
Teacher Notes (On some slides)
Focus on literacy
1 Hours worth of activities - including timings for every activity
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Secondary Digital Literacy - Escape Room - Virtual Escape Room run through PowerPoint by Cre8tive Resources! This lasts an hour or under depending on how quick the teams can solve each puzzle! Students love this style of lesson, great as an educational treat for your middle school or even high school class. Will your students be able to escape before time runs out?
The escape room puzzles content will be tailored to the topic of this escape room.
Escape Room Product Contents:
☞ Escape Room Interactive Tracker PowerPoint - Keeps the competitive nature on display
☞ Escape Room Puzzle Keys (Six Sets for Six Teams)
☞ Escape Room Team sheet - Record codes, answers clues as they progress through the 7 rooms
☞ Escape Room Puzzles (7 Rooms = 7 Different styles of Puzzles involving numeracy, literacy and lateral thinking)
☞ Bonus Riddles with every puzzle.
☞ Teacher Answer Sheet - Quickly confirm to teams they have solved the puzzle correctly
☞ Teacher instructions of how to set up the escape room and what to print and top tips and shortcuts.
☞ Successful Escape Certificates for those that complete the entire challenge (There is a difficult bonus escape too :) for any quick teams
✿ The 7 Rooms include: The Classroom, The Fair, The Interview, The Website, Job Interview, Boss’s Office, and the Extra Secret Escape Room location. It is suitable for Middle School and High School students.
JUST PRINT AND GO!
They can also be used to encourage a flipped learning environment.
Digital Literacy + Computing
Digital literacy is increasingly important! This resource has two record cards for teachers to track students literacy and digital literacy from starting school to adulthood. This document has many uses and possibilities and can be used in all curriculum.
Perfect for meeting the new PSHE Statutory guidelines, this pack has been created from the popular EC Resources PSHE lessons to match one of the new PSHE Association optional frameworks - the ‘Thematic Framework’, from their model programme builder. This is one of a variety of ways to order your PSHE content and follows the PSHE Association’s new, suggested order for content within their three categories: Living in the Wider World, Relationships and Health and Wellbeing.
PSHE Association Theme:
Summer 2 Living in the Wider World
Topic – Digital Literacy
Online safety, digital literacy, media reliability, and gambling hooks
This pack is mapped against the latest DfE guidance and uses the PSHE Association Core themes (H3, H30, H32, R17, L19, L20, L21, L22, L23, L24, L25, L26, L2) for the 2020 Requirements (Statutory Health and RSE).
Learning Outcomes for this unit – Students will learn…
about online communication
how to use social networking sites safely
how to recognise online grooming in different forms, e.g. in relation to sexual or financial exploitation, extremism and radicalisation
how to respond and seek support in cases of online grooming
how to recognise biased or misleading information online
how to critically assess different media sources
how to distinguish between content which is publicly and privately shared
about age restrictions when accessing different forms of media and how to make responsible decisions
how to protect financial security online
how to assess and manage risks in relation to gambling and chance-based transactions
All lessons are editable, differentiated at least three ways so you can be Ofsted and DfE guidance-ready and ensure your pupils have the very best PSHE education. Each pack contains a variety of activities, an hour-long PowerPoint, a clip with questions, a literacy focus task, new key-term introductions, reading aloud materials, assessment opportunities, progress checkers and creative tasks.
Who are EC Resources?
EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Children’s Commissioner, The Bank of England, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.
Check out our PSHE Packages here:
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AQA Citizenship GCSE Mega Pack
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One hour, fully resourced Internet Safety lesson which introduces the concept of digital footprints and how our actions on the Internet now can have an impact on our later lives - especially when applying for jobs or in relationships.
This resource pack includes an hour long PowerPoint with accompanying worksheets, well differentiated activities, literacy focus tasks, clip tasks with three-way differentiated questions and information sheets.
The lesson has been left editable and is filled with engaging, well differentiated and fun activities. It is useful for PSHE, ICT, Careers, Citizenship or Tutor Time. As with all our lessons, you don’t need any prior knowledge as all the information is included - you can just pick up and teach it.
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These are around 10 - 12 hours of resources improving pupils digital critical literacy.
They split into two parts i) Information and Bias and ii) Fake News.
These resources are designed to be delivered in front of a computer in a computing lesson but can be easily adapted to be delivered in a standard classroom.
This covers important parts of the Computing and Citizenship KS3 NC
This e-booklet contains a collection of ten lesson plans to help you develop students' digital literacies and critical thinking skills. Based around authentic infographics the lessons start by using discussion to help students access what they already know about the topics and then move on to comprehension and a range of tasks that help students to explore the validity and authenticity of the information they find. They finish with structured research and presentation tasks that encourage students to work collaboratively and share what they have learned.
The lessons progress through a range of tasks that engage student’s interest, encourage them to:
-: interact and share what they know
-: develop their abilities to extract information from text and graphics
-: view information critically
-: check the credibility and validity of information
-: develop online research skills
-: use web based tools to create surveys and data visualisations
The lessons cover a range of topics including:
-: Advertising and how it influences us
-: Body language and how to understand it
-: Introverts and extroverts and how they differ
-: Emotional intelligence and how it impacts on our relationships
-: Facts about hair
-: Happiness and what effects it
-: Developing study skills
-: The environment and waste caused by clothes manufacturing
-: Daily habits of the world's wealthiest people
-: The history of marriage and weddings
Each lesson includes:
-: A step by step teachers guide with advice and answer key
-: Worksheets to print for students
This e-booklet contains a collection of ten lesson plans to help you develop students' digital literacies and critical thinking skills. Based around authentic infographics the lessons start by using discussion to help students access what they already know about the topics and then move on to comprehension and a range of tasks that help students to explore the validity and authenticity of the information they find. They finish with structured research and presentation tasks that encourage students to work collaboratively and share what they have learned.
The aims of the lessons are to:
-: develop student's digital literacies
-: help them to think more critically about online information
-: develop their ability discuss and develop ideas around information and understand how it applies to their own lives.
The lessons progress through a range of tasks that engage student’s interest, encourage them to:
-: interact and share what they know
-: develop their abilities to extract information from text and graphics
-: view information critically
-: check the credibility and validity of information
-: develop online research skills
-: use web based tools to create surveys and data visualisations
The lessons cover a range of topics including:
-: Advertising and how it influences us
-: Body language and how to understand it
-: Introverts and extroverts and how they differ
-: Emotional intelligence and how it impacts on our relationships
-: Facts about hair
-: Happiness and what effects it
-: Developing study skills
-: The environment and waste caused by clothes manufacturing
-: Daily habits of the world's wealthiest people
-: The history of marriage and weddings
Each lesson includes:
-: A step by step teachers guide with advice and answer key
-: Worksheets to print for students
An excel spreadsheet to track Digital Literacy. Includes benchmarks, E&O and brocken down into smaller measurable chuncks. Simply enter 1,2 or 3 to RAG.
NEW 2026 DfE RSHE GUIDELINES COMPLIANT (see lesson plan included for details). A digital resilience PSHE lesson which examines what happens when we take social media too seriously, don’t think critically and build our lives around what we hear online. The lesson encourages critical thinking and speaking to trusted offline adults before taking advice from Tiktok or any other social media site. Students will investigate how to build emotional resilience. The lesson also examines trauma, and how to recognise whether we really are suffering from trauma, or whether we are experiencing normal (albeit stressful) teenage life.
This is all new content (2026) and all editable. The lesson will last you an hour and is aimed at KS4 but could be used with KS3. Taken from the new 2026 EC Publishing Complete PSHE Package.
Activities are scaffolded, there is a detailed and colourful PowerPoint, clip tasks with questions and answers, information pack, worksheets, literacy tasks, creative tasks, signposting to further help agencies and charities, clear outcomes and also partnered activities. Includes optional assessment sheet, lesson plan and written scheme of work that the lesson is taken from.
It is fully editable, engaging and very easy to follow.
Who are EC Resources?
EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Children’s Commissioner, The Bank of England, The British Legion, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.
Check out our PSHE Packages on Tes here:
Complete KS3 PSHE and RSE
Complete KS4 PSHE and RSE
Complete KS5 PSHE and RSE
One Year of Citizenship and British Values
Complete KS3 RE
Complete Careers and Employability
AQA Citizenship GCSE Mega Pack
You can contact us at info@ecpublishing.co.uk
Teaching PSHE, RE or Citizenship GCSE next year? Why not join our Citizenship and PSHE teachers Facebook group, with 10,000 other teachers, for guidance, advice and resource sharing.
In this lesson about money students will explore cryptocurrency, one of the most fascinating and poorly understood elements of digitalisation that could soon impact all of our lives. They will exchange their knowledge, views and experiences of money and read and research cryptocurrencies and the mysterious creator of Bitcoin - Satoshi Nakamoto and all of this while developing their English, communication skills and digital literacies.
Aims:
To develop students’ knowledge and ability to talk about and understand cryptocurrencies.
Level:
Intermediate + (B1- C2)
Materials:
Teachers’ Guide - (PDF)
Digital presentation: Demonstration Copy
This lesson is based on an infographic about the importance of emotional intelligence (EI) and its role in our lives. In the lesson students will explore the differences between IQ and EI and develop an understanding of how they can improve their EI and how doing this can benefit them.
Aims:
To develop students’ understanding of EI and its importance.
To develop students’ abilities to study and research effectively using digital tools.
To develop students’ abilities to read and understand visual information.
To develop students’ abilities to check the credibility of online information.
To develop students’ abilities to carry out online research and to represent their findings visually.
To develop students’ abilities to extract information from research and create informative text based on their findings.
The lesson files include:
Step by step lesson plan and answer key
Presentation
Photocopiable worksheets
This lesson plan is based on an infographic that reports on a survey into advertising, people’s attitudes to it and how it influences them.
Aims:
To develop students’ abilities to think critically and form informed opinions.
To develop students’ abilities to study and research effectively using digital tools.
To develop students’ abilities to read and understand visual information.
To develop students’ abilities to check the credibility of online information.
To develop students’ abilities to carry out online research and to represent their findings visually.
To develop students’ abilities to extract information from research and create informative text based on their findings.
The materials in this plan can be used in different ways. The first four tasks can be used independently as a simple reading and discussion lesson.
The final four tasks can be used selectively to develop various digital skills.
This lesson contains eight tasks:
A discussion task that gets students thinking about advertisements and how they influence their behavior.
A reading task that develops students’ abilities to scan text for specific information
A reading task that develops students’ abilities to check and confirm information.
A discussion task that gives students the opportunity to reflect on the information and apply it to their own lives.
A social research task that gets students to create an online questionnaire to find out about people’s attitudes to advertising.
A research task that gets students to check the accuracy of information
.A research task that gets students to research the advertising techniques used by various companies.
A writing task that gives students the opportunity to consolidate their learning in the form of a blog article.
A range of Digital Literacy challenges to use with any book or story across a variety of devices. This year’s theme is ‘Reading for Pleasure’ for Book Day, make reading activities fun and incorporate digital technologies into each task.
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Queen’s Jubilee Digitial Literacy Mat - Jubilee the Movie film short.
Watch the Jubilee film short and complete the discussion questions on five areas;
Character
Story
Setting
Sound
Colour
Plus extension tasks for early finishers.
Inspired by @MissLMacDonald on Twitter. I hope you enjoy this resource. I would love to see them in use, please tag me on;
Twitter @MissS_Says
Instagram @Miss_S_Says
Thank you!
Digital Literacy
Christmas Advert Digitial Literacy Mats
A selection of famous UK TV Adverts complete with questions on five areas;
Character
Story
Setting
Sound
Colour
Plus extension tasks for early finishers.
Inspired by @MissLMacDonald on Twitter. I hope you enjoy this resource. I would love to see them in use, please tag me on;
Twitter @MissS_Says
Instagram @Miss_S_Says
Thank you!
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