Nemours KidsHealth
Online Safety: Grades 6-8
Recognize risky behaviors and avoid them! That's the big idea behind two activities designed to teach middle schoolers to think critically about online safety. After reading background articles about protecting online identity,...
Norton Life Lock
Digital Citizenship Bingo
Bingo! Tweens demonstrate their knowledge of the nine D's of digital citizenship by playing the game of Bingo. As instructors call out questions, individuals search their game cards to locate the answering image on their card.
Teaching Tolerance
Privacy and Security Online
Don't forget to dust for digital footprints! Scholars engage in a whole-class discussion about how digital footprints compromise online safety and privacy. Next, small groups create posters to illustrate what it looks like to follow...
Teaching Tolerance
The Privacy Paradox
What's more important: privacy or convenience? Scholars consider the question as they take a digital privacy quiz and read a transcript of an NPR podcast about the privacy paradox. As a culminating activity, pupils develop a list of five...
C-SPAN
Foreign Interference in U.S. Elections
With election security looming large for 2020, pupils decide what should be done to protect them from foreign interference. A series of videos, including interviews with national security officials, elected representatives, and experts...
Nemours KidsHealth
Media Literacy and Health: Grades 6-8
Internet suffers could drown in the volume of information available on line. Here's an activity that can be a lifeline and buoy confidence in middle schoolers' ability to find reliable information and credible sources. After reading...
Facebook
Cybersecurity, Phishing, and Spam
Take a serious look at an equally serious topic! Security scholars explore and discuss the methods hackers use to gain access to personal information during a well-written digital citizenship activity. Part of an extensive series, the...
PBS
NOVA Cybersecurity Lab Lesson Plan
Don't be fooled by cyber scams! An informative lesson teaches techies about cybersecurity. They watch videos, play a game, and engage in discussion to improve their understanding of online safety.
PBS
NOVA Cybersecurity Lab Game
It's important to protect yourself online. An online game has pupils imagine themselves as cybersecurity specialists at a social networking company. They learn about ways to protect data online through a series of challenges.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Unit: Online Data Security
Readings and practice problems about online data security.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Defining Cyberwarfare in Hopes of Preventing It
Can you imagine a future where wars are fought not with bombs and bullets but computer viruses and pacemaker shutdowns? Cyberware is unique in that it is not covered by existing legal framework and it often inspires more questions than...
Other
Anti Spyware Coalition
This site contains industry and educational accepted spyware definitions and best practices, and includes a document listing and newsroom.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Cybersecurity and Economics: Protecting Your Identity Online
Help students answe the esential question, "What should you do before you share information on the Internet?"
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Arthur W. Coviello: Rsa Conference Keynote Address
This is the text and video of Arthur W. Coviello's keynote speech at the RSA Conference delivered on February 25, 2014, in San Francisco, California.
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Ashton Carter: Drell Lecture on Innovation and Cybersecurity
This is the text, audio, and video [40:52] of Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter's Drell Lecture on innovation and cybersecurity delivered on April 23, 2015, at Stanford University, in Palo Alto, California.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Internet Safety : How to Avoid Malware
Malware is one of the most common hazards to your computer when you're online, but it's easy to avoid. Developing safe and smart browsing habits can protect you from malware and other threats, like viruses. Securing your computer and...
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Internet Safety: Avoiding Spam and Phishing
Learn more about spam and phishing.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Internet Safety: Your Browser's Security Features
Learn more about your browser's built-in security features.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Public Key Encryption
Learn how public key encryption can protect computer data.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Symmetric Encryption Techniques
Learn how symmetric encryption techniques help protect computer data.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Encryption, Decryption, and Cracking
Find out about data encryption, decryption and cracking computer data to avoid virsus and cyberattacks.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Need for Encryption
Find out why we need to encrypt computer data to avoid hackers.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Computer Malware
Learn about malware, how it is installed on a computer, and what type of damage it can do.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Phishing Attacks
Find out what phishing attacks are and how to avoid them.