This performance task is designed for third grade and up to teach the importance of using strong passwords.  This would be helpful to use at the beginning of the year to review password safety with upper elementary school students to refresh their memory.  This includes an instructional slide show and a student handout.

This is an unplugged worksheet activity to walk students through the process of building strong, easy to remember, passwords.

This slideshow will help students to identify and use strong passwords, and explain why strong passwords should be used (e.g., protect name, address, and telephone number). It walks students through a process that can be used to create strong, easy to remember, passwords.

Every day our privacy is at risk with data being collected about us as we share and live more of our lives online. For this activity, you will explore how you do and do not protect your privacy online and then create a security avatar to help you battle for your privacy.

A simple lesson plan to introduce Cyber Security and creating strong passwords for online use. 

An interacitve Poster to help start a class disucussion on ways to stay safe when using technolgoy and the internet. 

Students will learn about cybersecurity and the importance of passwords to create a poster and commercial to show their NetSmartz, over a two-day lesson.

Students will demonstrate how technology needs to be used appropriately and how to keep themselves and others safe on the internet and devices.  In this lesson, students will learn about how to use technology appropriately and focus on the rules of Netiquette. 

Strand: Cybersecurity3.11 The student will create examples of strong passwords, explain why strong passwords should be used, and demonstrate proper use and protection of personal passwords.4.11 The student will create examples of strong passwords, explain why strong passwords should be used, and demonstrate proper use and protection of personal passwords.Private information such as your phone number, address, favorite foods, or where you like to vacation should be carefully guarded. Passwords are a way to protect devices and information from unauthorized access. There are many ways a password can be guessed or stolen from a user.This activity allows students to take turns guessing simple passwords.

A lesson plan complete with video and research activity to explore the characteristics of safe websites. 

Strong Passwords is a "King of the Mountain" style game created using Gamilab. Students will answer ten true or false questions about passwords in order to help the climber get to the top of the mountain. It is based on SOL 3.11: The student will create examples of strong passwords, explain why strong passwords should be used, and demonstrate proper use and protection of personal passwords.

The students will participate in an escape room style challenge to uncover a strong password needed to access a computer program.

This poster uses the suggestions for strong passwords from the CS Standards of Learning Curriculum Framework for Grade 2.

This lesson plan is an itroduction to teach safety in using technology to second grade students.

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.