Common Sense Media
Digital Compass
Time to make some real world decisions in an interactive digital citizenship game. Choose a story and help the characters make the right decisions regarding Internet safety, cyberbullying, copyright, media literacy, appropriate online...
Google
Interland
"Be Internet Awesome" is the motto in a super cool digital citizenship interactive created by Google. Interland is made up of four lands that explore the importance of digital safety and helps young Internet users to be alert, strong,...
Facebook
Cybersecurity, Phishing, and Spam
Take a serious look at an equally serious topic! Security scholars explore and discuss the methods hackers use to gain access to personal information during a well-written digital citizenship activity. Part of an extensive series, the...
Facebook
Passwords
Creating a strong password is easy ... but remembering it is a different story! Cyber scholars analyze the methods used by hackers to gain access to private information through a digital citizenship lesson. After learning more about...
Edublogs
Digital Citizenship and Blogging
Encourage positive digital citizenship and healthy blogging habits with a one-page infographic designed to showcase eight pertinent aspects of blogging—netiquette, content curation, copyright, and more!
PBS
NOVA Cybersecurity Lab Lesson Plan
Don't be fooled by cyber scams! An informative lesson teaches techies about cybersecurity. They watch videos, play a game, and engage in discussion to improve their understanding of online safety.
PBS
NOVA Cybersecurity Lab Game
It's important to protect yourself online. An online game has pupils imagine themselves as cybersecurity specialists at a social networking company. They learn about ways to protect data online through a series of challenges.
Google
Online Safety Roadshow Activity
What does it mean to have digital citizenship? A set of lessons teach middle schoolers how to be safe and productive online. From sharing posts to creating secure passwords, learners discuss the importance of remaining diligent—and...
Code.org
Keys and Passwords
Scholars explore the relationship between cipher keys and passwords and as they learn more about the Vigenere cipher and continue to read from the book Blown to Bits in the seventh instructional activity of the series. They conduct an...
Curriculum Corner
Meeting Notes Templates
Forms for recording notes from group, committee, and PLC meetings are included in this packet of templates that can be used to document discussions and record key ideas.
Curriculum Corner
Passwords to Remember
Do your kids have a hard time keeping track of their passwords? Use a graphic organizer to have them list the names of websites and corresponding passwords.
Curated OER
The Info Gang
Students explore personal safety by participating in an Internet activity. In this internet security lesson, students identify the uses of passwords and screen names in order to hide and secure their digital identities. Students practice...
Curated OER
Basic Infosec
Sixth graders identify similarities between home security and computer (or information) security. In this information security lesson, 6th graders create their own secure folders using passwords on the computer to organize their files...
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Common Sense Media: Strong Passwords [Pdf]
In this instructional activity, students learn how to create secure passwords in order to protect their private information and accounts online.
BBC
Bbc Newsround: Sing Your Way to Creating a Strong Password
Article provides a strategy for using song lyrics to create strong passwords.
BBC
Bbc: Internet Safety: Stay Safe
The BBC provides useful tips to help you learn how to stay safe while surfing the internet. Discussion includes chatrooms, e-mail, webpals, passwords, and more.
Microsoft
Microsoft: Password Checker
This handy online tool helps you determine the strength of a password. Enter a password and Password Checker will rate it Weak, Medium, Strong, or Best.
Get Safe Online
Get Safe Online: Use Strong Passwords
Almost everyone that uses the internet accesses a site that requires a password. This site describes how to create strong passwords that are not easily guessed or cracked.
BBC
Bbc Newsround: Tips for Good Passwords
This article presents common mistakes for creating insecure passwords and provides advice on creating strong passwords.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Microsoft Account
In this tutorial, learn how to create and maintain a Microsoft account to use OneDrive, Skype, and more.
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
Netsmartz: The Princess's Password
Something awful is happening to Nettie's virtual castle! Her gold coins have turned into hay, her beautiful dress is dirty, and is that a dragon in her fireplace? Read about how Nettie reclaims her castle and how to create strong passwords
Get Safe Online
Get Safe Online: Protecting Yourself: Passwords
Learn how good passwords can protect digital information.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Strong Passwords
Find out how setting up secure passwords help users protect their private information.
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University of Florida
University of Florida: Netiquette Guide for Online Courses [Pdf]
This guide provides tips for how to behave during an online course and just in general when you communicate through the Internet. It looks at password protection, online communication, email, and message boards.