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Introduction to Cybersecurity (Caesar)

This course prepares students with crucial skills to be responsible citizens in a digital future. Foundational cybersecurity topics are learned including digital citizenship and cyber hygiene, and information literacy. This is a one-semester course designed for middle school students.

Overview & Highlights

Level
Middle School
Contact Hours
90
Timeframe
Semester

Course Overview

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What is Cybersecurity?
Students explore the basics of cybersecurity. Students learn about why cybersecurity is important, recent threats to cybersecurity, and different careers in the field.
Digital Citizenship and Cyber Hygiene
Students learn about Internet etiquette and how to stay safe on the world wide web. Students also look at the potential effects of our digital footprints, how to protect information from online risks, and the implications of cyberbullying.
Information Literacy
Students explore topics on information literacy and learn how to find and cite quality resources online.
Final Project: PSA
For this final project, students create a Public Service Announcement (PSA) to teach their peers about cybersecurity. They can select any of the topics covered in this course.

42
Lessons
35
Videos
83
Exercises
2
Challenges
42
Offline Handouts

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Professional Development

Teaching Fundamentals of Cybersecurity

The CodeHS Cybersecurity course prepares students with crucial skills to be responsible citizens in a digital future and protect themselves from the growing threat of cyber attacks. With the CodeHS online Professional Development course, we'll train teachers at your school to teach an excellent Cybersecurity course. No programming experience is required. Teachers will gain the skills, pedagogical knowledge, resources, and confidence to lead a great cybersecurity class with CodeHS.

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