OVERVIEW

Activity Overview:

Cybersecurity and personal information protection go hand in hand. This is the first of a three lesson unit that introduces 5th grade computer users of how we protect personal information from various forms of cyber attacks.. The lesson is easily adaptable for 3rd grade and up through high school integrating ELA, Social Studies, and CS standards through the lens of real-world cyber security.

Meta description

• Subject Area: Computer Science, Social Studies, Reading/Language Arts, Technology
• Grade Level : 3-5
• Computer Science Domains:
  • Networks and The Internet, Impacts of Computing
• Computer Science Principles:
  • Recognizing and Defining Computational Problems
• Materials:
  • Web availability to view videos listed below in ‘Activity Description’
• Considerations:
  • Compile a list of needs, wants, goods, and services so students can categorize them as a whole group.

Lesson Plan

Overview

Cybersecurity and personal information protection go hand in hand. This is the first of a three lesson unit that introduces 5th grade computer users of how we protect personal information from various forms of cyber attacks.. The lesson is easily adaptable for 3rd grade and up through high school integrating ELA, Social Studies, and CS standards through the lens of real-world cyber security.

ASSESSMENT PRE/POST-TEST

How can we protect ourselves from cyber attacks?

OBJECTIVES

1. Students will draft a multimedia presentation that address the following: A. Researched definition of cyber security with 100% accuracy. B. Noting at least three areas that can be impacted by cyber attacks with 100% accuracy. C. Describe with 100% accuracy the role technology plays from a social studies standpoint in terms of needs, wants, goods, and services.

CATCH/HOOK

What are things that can CRASH? Today’s focus begins with listing things that crash!

ACTIVITY INSTRUCTIONS

Real World Cybersecurity (45 minutes): 10 min. Students get out white boards and quietly generate lists of things that crash. Students walk about the room for pairing, sharing, and adding to their lists.

Whole group discussion about lists, zeroing in on common findings until the topic of computer crashes arise. Discuss the causes for computers crashing and introduce the daily focus of protection from cyber attacks with cyber security..

Introduce/revisit the social studies concept that define needs, wants, goods, and services. Student divide their individual white boards into four sections; “Needs, Wants, Goods, and Services.” Teacher randomly calls out (pre-generated) terms that fit in one of the four categories, with students discussing and placing the terms into the correct category on their white boards. After each a category has a couple of items, turn focus to technology and/or computer science terms that will fit into each category, with “cyber security” being the last term to place. (The big idea is for students to see that technology fits in each category and the final term “cyber security” segues into the main activity)

5 min Teacher leads discussion of the job description of someone who works in cyber security, beginning with the very first thing a person in cyber security does once they get into the office; login to their computer, just like we do at school. Watch 3 minute video and take notes (on white boards) about Two Factor Authentication; how it works and why it’s useful. https://www.trendmicro.com/internet-safety/for-kids/cyber-academy/what-is-two-factor-authentication

    25 min Creation of CyberSecurity Powerpoint or Google Slide Presentation
            Students follow teacher model of creating Google Slide, titling it “Cyber Security,” 

and sharing it with teacher. Teacher then models first slide creation of how technology fits into needs, wants, goods, and services; being sure to include that “Cyber Security” fits into “service.” Teacher and students construct slide two together about “Two Factor Authenticity” with the use of students’ notes. Teacher gives instruction that student partners will watch and note three videos, then create another slide using information from the videos.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqbfXUunYFA  (11 year old)


            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiU72Vzs5Is   (cartoon with Dr. Evil)

https://www.trendmicro.com/internet-safety/for-kids/cyber-academy/internet-security (internet security)

5 min Wrap up with putting chromebooks aside and students filling out an exit slip addressing two factor authentication and ways to protect personal information.

Supplements

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REVIEW

Wrap up with putting chromebooks aside and students filling out an exit slip addressing two factor authentication and ways to protect personal information.

STANDARDS