Pro{tech}ting Your Digital Life
This is a self‑paced cybersecurity workbook series designed for individuals of all ages, helping them explore key concepts around online safety, privacy, and digital responsibility.
Collection
Cybersecurity
CyberEthics: Cyber Warfare
In this lesson, students will explore examples of countries engaging in cyber warfare and engage in activities to understand the role the military plays in protecting the United States from cyberattacks.
Can you Hack the Cyber Attack? What is a Computer?
Are computers a sum of their parts or are they more than that? Hardware and software make up a computer and allow them to do the amazing things they can perform. Students will disassemble a computer (or other device) to view the components.
Can you Hack the Cyber Attack? The Who, What, Where, and Why of Cyberattacks.
Networks, hosts, clients, and servers are components of computer communication. Each component is vulnerable in different ways to cyberattacks that can result in personal and monetary loss. Students will demonstrate their learning through a game of Kahoot.
Can you Hack the Cyber Attack? Can You Crack The Code?
Decrypting secret messages has been around for decades. The need to decrypt different algorithms is essential in cyber warfare and the understanding of the threats that surround us on the internet daily.
Code For Change: Security
Students will be introduced to the Internet of Things and cybersecurity.
Code For Change: App Exhibition
Students prepare to present/exhibit their apps to an audience. Students will finalize and exhibit posters for a public audience and celebrate their success at the end of the project.
CyberEthics: Cryptology
In this lesson, students will explore the history of code making and breaking, or cryptography and cryptanalysis, by creating their own codes and breaking others. Students will reenact the Cuban Missile Crisis as they create and attempt to break codes to prevent nuclear war.
Code For Change: Cryptography
Students will apply concepts from historical cryptography to build and describe an encrypted communication system while learning about internet security via tools in their desktop browser.