Intro to Cybersecurity (6th Grade - Semester Course)
This course introduces cybersecurity topics that affect our everyday life in plain, simple language, making it accessible to all. This course is divided into 2 primary domains:
Security - explores various ways we protect data and information through people, processes, and technology; the types of attacks that must be defended against; and the concepts used to secure information, networks, and physical assets.
Digital Citizenship - explores how our actions affect the larger digital world; how ethics, laws, and policies affect our digital lives; and what it means to be an informed cyber citizen.
Beginning Cybersecurity (7th/8th Grade - Year Course)
The goal of this course is to introduce students to basic cybersecurity concepts and inspire interest in cybersecurity careers. The focus of instruction will include the implementation and monitoring of security on network and computer systems. Students will investigate strategies to identify and protect against security threats such as hackers, eavesdropping, and network attacks. The basics of cryptography and logic reasoning will be explored. Hands-on labs provide practice in the configuration and mitigation of system vulnerabilities. Each unit integrates current events and related cyber ethics and law.
Advanced Cybersecurity (8th Grade - Year Course)
Prerequisite: Beginning Cybersecurity
This course provides students with an introduction to cyber engineering and introductory cybersecurity topics. Using a robotics platform as the textbook, students will take a variety of deep dives into cybersecurity relevant real-world topics such as programming, electricity and circuits, sensors and autonomy, current events, and what it means to be a cyber citizen in today’s evolving digital world.
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