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.

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.

Looking for a fun way to teach both scientific method and cybersecurity? Well great job, you found it. Students will not only learn 5 characteristics to making a good password but they will also be using all of their 2.1, 3.1, and 4.1 strands to build and rebuild a structure using different materials that are probably inside your classroom right now.  Need a STEM activity for a club day? Need a “Friday and I can’t teach anymore content” lesson? This is for you. Roll up your sleeves and let the students do the work and problem solve in a simple and fun way.

Using sensory bins, wiki sticks, and magical water painting art, students will merge their knowledge of Virginia’s civil rights icons with strong password dos and don’ts.  

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.

Review planets and teach students about safe/secure password usage with this Planet's Password Puzzle! Students will have to use clues to identify each planet and once they are in the right order students will be left with a top secret password to stop the evil hackers at the International Space Station! 

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