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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Information Security Basics

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore the five steps to becoming a security expert.  In this information security lesson plan, students complete a tutorial and problem solve case studies to identify proper online procedures and safety.  
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Basic Infosec

For Teachers 6th
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...
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Website
Other

Pcstats.com: Beginners Guides: Home Networking and File Sharing

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains information about establishing and maintaining a secure home computer network, with an emphasis on Windows-based operation systems.
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eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Public Key Encryption

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how public key encryption can send that data safely between computer systems.
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eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: The Need for Encryption

For Students 9th - 10th
A huge amount of private data is sent around the Internet every day: emails with details about our personal lives, passwords that we type into login screens, tax documents that we upload to servers. Learn more about the need for data...
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eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: User Authentication Methods

For Students 9th - 10th
Some practice problems on user authentication methods regarding computer security.
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eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Multi Factor Authentication

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the security of the most common form of authentication, multi-factor authentication.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Computer Security

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains a Wikipedia description of computer security.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Network Security

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains a Wikipedia description of network security.
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Principles of Computer System Design: An Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th
This site makes available the second part of a textbook on computer system design. The chapters cover topics such as fault tolerance, networking, consistency and information security.