This activity introduces puts participants in the role of agricultural workers in a fresh produce operation that grows crops in a hydroponic system to sell at grocery stores. As they grow their crops over the course of several weeks, they are responsible for ensuring that the products are safe, delicious, and ready to sell to customers. This activity is part of the Agricultural Cyberbiosecurity Education Resource Collection that contains resources for formal and non-formal agricultural educators working with middle school aged youth. Published as Open Educational Resources, all resources are provided in durable (pdf) and customizable (MS Word) formats. They are hosted on  GoOpenVA in a unique resource collection, Ag Cybersecurity Virginia Tech, at https://goopenva.org/curated-collections/143 and on on Virginia Tech’s stable repository, VTechWorks at https://doi.org/10.21061/cyberbiosecurity

Each episode consists of:
A short three-minute animated video
A conversation guide to support teachers/parents (It’s basically a Q&A for kids)
A Kahoot! Quiz to reinforce the learning
A popular and fun activity sheet| a great homework activity to engage all the family at home.

This is a crossword covering several of the most common types of cyberattacks.

In this lesson students will learn how enslaved people used lyrics in songs to help them follow the path to freedom, in the time period before and during the Civil War. 

The teacher will introduce/ reiterate the importance of usernames and passwords. At the beginning of the year students receive their username and password for their personal school devices or for logging into the school equipment.
This activity allows students to locate and color the keys on the keyboard to help them with the initial login process and remembering their username and password.

Users can access the transcript of a YouTube from the video's settings. The transcript can be helpful for viewers who want to follow along with the video's content or for creators who wish to repurpose the video's text. Then place the text into ChatGPT and ask it to create multiple-choice questions. Finally, add the questions to the timeline using EDpuzzle with the YouTube video.

Fill out the We Can! Screen Time Chart to see how much time your family spends in front of a screen. Keep one chart for each person.

In this lesson students will understand that their name, home address, and their phone number is personal information. Students will also understand that they should not share this personal information with anyone online as well as strangers and why this is so important.

This is a writing prompt choice board intended to be used in a writing center or station. In my classroom we typically use one choice board per week. Students choose up to 4 items to complete for the week. I do 4 items to give students time to finish incomplete work on Fridays, to work on final drafts, to edit a selected item, or to share their writing with peers. You can make the rules for your classroom to best suit your teaching style and your student's needs.

The choice board includes 8 prompts and one Student Choice square based on Cybersecurity standards for first grade.

Please feel free to make a copy of the choice board and edit it to meet your specifications.

The Digital Citizenship Curricular Framework provides guidance for implementing various sets of curricular standards through a lens of digital citizenship education. This framework can serve as a ‘blueprint’ to guide conversations around digital citizenship education for students in PK through 12th grade. The framework provides a logical sequence for content acquisition and skill development that can help students develop into safe, well-rounded, literate and participatory digital citizens.

The cybersecurity industry is growing so quickly, there will be more jobs than people to fill them. That’s why it’s never too early to learn about careers in cybersecurity. This curriculum is designed to foster discussions between adults and young students (K-3rd grade) about the exciting opportunities available in these fields. Talking about how Faux Paw and the other characters navigate online safety and the digital world is an age appropriate way to ignite students’ curiosity about the opportunities available in cybersecurity jobs. Faux Paw Cybersecurity Superstars Curriculum consists of four lessons about data privacy, digital citizenship, and cybersecurity jobs in a manner relatable to young students. The lessons reference the books/videos Faux Paw’s Adventures on the Internet, Faux Paw and the Dangerous Download, and Faux Paw and the Unfortunate Upload