OVERVIEW

Activity Overview:

Middle School Students love to share everything-including their water bottles, their sense of humor and even their passwords. This lesson demonstrates why passwords should not be shared and furthermore the importance of a strong password. It also teaches how to create a strong password!

Meta description

• Subject Area: Computer Science, Reading/Language Arts, Technology
• Grade Level : 6-8
• Computer Science Domains:
  • Networks and The Internet, Algorithms and Programming
• Computer Science Principles:
  • Collaborating Around Computing
• Materials:
  • https://curriculum.code.org/csf-19/coursec/2/#powerful-passwords2
• Considerations:
  • This lesson is very exploratory. Teachers and librarians must be willing to listen to all ideas and suggestions from students!

Lesson Plan

Overview

Middle School Students love to share everything-including their water bottles, their sense of humor and even their passwords. This lesson demonstrates why passwords should not be shared and furthermore the importance of a strong password. It also teaches how to create a strong password!

ASSESSMENT PRE/POST-TEST

1. Three reasons why I shouldn’t share my password are:
2. I have three strategies to make a strong password, they are:
3. Being a smart digital citizen means passwords are important because:

OBJECTIVES

-Understand the importance of NOT sharing passwords. -Create a strong password. -Make an informed decision when asked to share a password.

CATCH/HOOK

Have students lock their computers. Tell students to trade computers with the person sitting next to them. Tell students to guess the person’s password. (Note-my district uses the same formula for all preset passwords). Engage in a discussion of this experience.

ACTIVITY INSTRUCTIONS

Student hook, then pretest, then activity through common sense, then debate, then post test.

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REVIEW

The review lesson is the debate.

STANDARDS