Cyber Detectives
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Teach your students how to be cyber sleuths with eight classroom activities investigating cyber-crime! In each activity students will learn essential internet skills like avoiding scams, coding, creating secure passwords, and more.
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Classroom Activities
Cryptobabel
Coded Communication
Grades 4–6
60–75 minutes
Students are presented with a top-secret scenario in which they must intercept a message from a spy.
Coded Communication Classroom Activity
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Netbuilder
Information Transfer
Grades 4–6
60–75 minutes
Students must teach others about how information is transferred over the Internet.
Hashing and Cracking
Password Essentials
Grades 4–6
50–60 minutes
In this activity, students will pretend they are entrepreneurs about to begin their own company website and they want their login system to be as secure as possible.
Social Engineering
Scam Alert!
Grades 4-6
50-60 minutes
Students will become members of their school’s Scam Alert Team to help protect their community from internet scams.
cyber forensics
Network Protection
Grades 4-6
45 minutes
Students will take on the role of digital forensic investigators who have been tasked with investigating a recent store robbery.
creative coding
The Internet of Things
Grades 4-6
60 minutes
As employees at a top tech company, students are tasked with adding a new non-tech product to the Internet of things.
passwords and picking
Solving the Puzzle
Grades 4-6
60-75 minutes
Students have been hired by a toy company to create a new jigsaw puzzle that will be marketed as the year’s trickiest!
Cryptography
Security Alert
Grades 4-6
45-60 minutes
The Internet is indefinitely down in the office, and students must devise a way to send private and secure messages to each other.