6-8.NI.5 Explain potential security threats and security measures to mitigate threats.
Cybersecurity lesson with games by NOVA labs.
Lesson by MediaSmarts with unplugged gaming.
Introduction to tools, techniques hackers employ, learn prevention.
Students explore encryption, discuss importance of data privacy.
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Explore how to improve data security using complex passwords & two-factor authentication.
In a simulation, students find there is a double agent. Using various ciphers & cybersecurity standards students must decode & find the spy.
Students discuss trends found in a dataset regarding password strength.
6-8.NI.6 Apply multiple methods of information protection to model the secure transmission of information.
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Lesson from TeachEngineering.
Cybersecurity lesson with games by NOVA labs.
Students explore encryption, discuss importance of data privacy.
Students create their own messages using cryptography & share it with others to decode.
Explore how to improve data security using complex passwords & two-factor authentication.
Students learn about the precursor to the telephone and simulate a telegraph using Morse Code & a microbit.