Diagram a Computer
(View Complete Item Description)This activity will have students exploring the inside of a computer and creating a diagram or model.
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Packet Puzzle
(View Complete Item Description)This activity will help students understand how computer packets of information travel through a network.
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Network Questions
(View Complete Item Description)Students will learn all about computer networks from a given website by answering questions on the provided worksheet.
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Pringles Can Enigma Machine
(View Complete Item Description)This activity is from the Cyber.org website and covers the topic of the German Enigma Encryption machine that was used during World War II. Students will learn about how the Enigma machine worked and the process it used to encrypt messages. Students will be able to create their own Enigma machine using a normal size Pringles can and the activity sheet in PDF format. This is a great way to teach the concepts of encryption and a low cost way to give students a hands on approach to encrypting and decrypting messages.Ideas on how to use this activity would be to give the students a message to encrypt using their Pringles can Enigma machine or having students send an encrypted message to a classmate with the encryption key and have that student decrypt the message. To show the power of this type of encryption you can have other students try to decrypt the message without the key so they can see how difficult it would have been to crack the code during World War II.Link to the Cyber.org website for this activity
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Caesar Cipher - Unplugged
(View Complete Item Description)This unplugged lesson will allow students to encrypt and decrypt message using the Caesar Cipher letter shift method of encryption. Cover the process of how this method works by doing an example and explaining the process of shifting the plaintext by the letter shift value to create the encrypted cipher text.
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Internet Protocols Activity
(View Complete Item Description)This activity will have students learn about internet protocols and research how different types of internet protocols work, then create an illustration to present to the class.
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Internet Protocols Notesheet
(View Complete Item Description)This notesheet will allow students to learn about what internet protocol is and its components from 2 you tube videos. This should be used in conjunction with the internet protocols activity.
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Sorting races
(View Complete Item Description)This activity will have students racing to sort numbers or words. They will learn and use both bubble sort and merge sort and see which one is faster/more efficient and which they prefer.
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Caesar Cipher in Python
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson is designed to teach students basic encryption using the Caesar cipher method. This is a simple letter shift cipher that takes a plaintext message and encrypts it into cipher text by shifting each letter of the message by a value between 1 and 25 (1 less than the total number of letters in the English alphabet). This technique was used by Julius Caesar to encrypt messages by shifting each letter of the message by 3 letters. The message would be decrypted by taking each letter and shifting back 3 letters to reveal the plaintext message.
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Cybersecurity Crossword
(View Complete Item Description)This is a simple worksheet crossword puzzle for cybersecurity. This can be used to reinforce key terms and definitations or as an assessment.
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Binary Conversions
(View Complete Item Description)This is a power point lesson that goes through what binary numbers are and how to convert from binary to decimal and vice versa.
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Binary Conversion Worksheet
(View Complete Item Description)Worksheet for use after binary lesson for students to practice converting between binary and decimal numbers. Answer key included.
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Man in the Middle Attack - Unplugged
(View Complete Item Description)This is an unplugged version of how a man in the middle attack can happen and how data can be altered using rope, binder clips, envelopes and index cards.
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Network packets - Unplugged
(View Complete Item Description)This is an unplugged version of how computer data packets travel through computer networks using rope, binder clips, envelopes and index cards.
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The Social Dilemma Questions
(View Complete Item Description)Mostly fill-in-the-blank questions from The Social Dilemma documentary on Netflix. Includes answer key.
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Last Mile Discussion Questions
(View Complete Item Description)Students watch a 10 minute video on the last mile issue, focusing on rural Kentucky, and discuss some of the issues brought up.
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Open Source Discussion Questions
(View Complete Item Description)After watching a YouTube video on open-source software, these discussion questions can help students process and understand what they learned.
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Anagrams in Python
(View Complete Item Description)A simple Python program to determine if two words are anagrams
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Simple Calculator in Python
(View Complete Item Description)A simple calculator in Python to add, subtract, multiply and divide
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Introduction to Modulus
(View Complete Item Description)This is an introduction to the concept of modulus. Students will compute various problems involving the modulus operator.
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