Created by
Alexander Gregory
TOPIC: Cyber Patriot and Cybersecurity
GRADE LEVELS: 9-12 Grade
LESSON DURATION: 90 minutes
SOFT SKILLS: critical thinking, collaboration, communications
Learning Outcome: Students will understand basic cybersecurity principles through the use of a common analogy.
Standards of Learning:
Verso 6302 – 34: Describe cybersecurity
Verso 6302 – 37: Explain cybersecurity services as they relate to intrusion prevention capabilities that protect systems against unauthorized access, exploitation, and data exfiltration.
Verso 6302 – 38: Define risk
Materials: Computers, markers, large paper, PBS Game, PowerPoint
Activities: Students will complete the following:
- Class discussion on the importance of cybersecurity
- Introduce analogy
- John’s bike= asset
- theft=cyber threat
- Potential thief=threat agent
- Unlocked garage and sketchy neighborhood=vulnerability
- PowerPoint for visuals to aid analogy (Analogy for Cybersecurity Slides)
- Discuss each part of the analogy with students coming up with examples for asset, cyber threat, threat agent, and vulnerability
- Introduce analogy
- In small groups, create an analogy similar to the one discussed in class.
- Draw out analogy on large paper
- On back or below, have students describe ways they would prevent the risk.
- Avoidance, acceptance, mitigation, deterrence, transference.
- Students share their analogies and their risk prevention ideas.
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/labs/lab/cyber/
- Complete the first three challenges in the game (coding, password, social engineering)
- Are there jobs out there for cybersecurity? How does someone learn these skills?
- Cyber Patriot Presentation
- Discuss different aspects of the program and what are the rewards of the the program.
- Exit ticket: How could you be more aware of your online behaviors?
Enrichment/Follow-up: After introducing cybersecurity, the students will move to ethics. Remind the students this class is not hacker training.
Assignment Rubric:
| CATEGORY | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Focus on Analogy | There is one clear, well- focused analogy. Main idea stands out and is supported by detailed information. | The analogy is clear but the supporting information is general. | The analogy is somewhat clear but there is a need for more supporting information. | The analogy is not clear. There is a seemingly random collection of information. |
| Support for Analogy | Relevant, telling, quality details give the reader important information that goes beyond the obvious or predictable. | Supporting details and information are relevant, but one key issue or portion of the analogy is unsupported. | Supporting details and information are relevant, but several key issues or portions of the analogy are unsupported. | Supporting details and information are typically unclear or not related to the analogy. |
| Creativity | contains many creative details and/or descriptions that contribute to the reader’s enjoyment. The author has really used imaginat