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.

This game created on Gamilab is from CS SOL 8.9 and is titled, “Public and Private Information.”
It is a bike race game where students must correctly answer questions to advance regarding online information from the Computer Science SOL 8.9 from the strand of Impacts of Computing. To start, press the up arrow a couple of times. Please enter code G8471Tto play if you have any problems with the link.

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.

This unit is geared toward students in 4th grade.  This lesson has students identify why passwords are important and how we can create and remember strong passwords that keep our information safe while online.  There are mutltiple resources with this lesson including the lesson plan, a slides presentation to guide the lesson, and interactive video guide, and finally a password practice sheet.  This lesson could be divided up over multiple days and can also be differentiated to different age students.

Vocabulary posters for the Cybersecurity strand for Grade 5. Words included are from the 2017 Computer Science Curriculum Framework.

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.

This a a Bike Race game from Gamilab about public and private information that is based on SOL 8.9. The player will navigate a biker through a path by correctly answering questions about information. The biker is navigated by using the arrow keys on a keyboard. 

Students will learn about the importance of strong passwords and how to create a password that is harder to guess.Students will use existing passwords for superheroes from the chart on the Super Passwords sheet to enter into the the Passwoer Monster website to determine how strong the password is. Then, create a new pasword to make it stronger and enter it into the Password Monster website. Students will then compare the passwords  to see which is stronger. Password Monster