1. Cyber Self-Defense Lesson Plan
Safe Social Media Usage and Online Privacy/Searching
by Dale Bushyhead, Jamie Miller, and Shawna Merritt
purpose: Our students tend to be too trusting, need to be made aware of risks
in social media and sharing personal information.
audience: special-ed high school math students (Dale)
7th & 8th grade girls’ athletics (Jamie)
9th grade Introduction to Computing (Shawna)
timeline: flexible, 3-4 different class periods
Cybersecurity First Principles: Information Hiding and Least Privilege

3. Our hook for social media will be “take this lollipop”,
maybe run using a couple of (willing) students’ or teachers’ facebook profiles
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4. Discussion on Safe Social Media Usage
Facebook +/-
Snapchat +/-
Instagram +/-
Twitter +/-
Pokemon Go +/-
Linkedin +/-

5. The hook for Online Privacy/Searching
will be the “How Secure Is My Password?” website.
Students will check old passwords, then try new ones to improve their security.
segue into
Online Privacy:
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Remind them that this is an exception, they should NEVER share their password on ANY website after clicking a link in an .

6. Discussion on Security of Accounts
Threats
Theft
Scams

7. Screenshots of the games on the FBI-SOS website
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8. Screenshot of the games on the FBI-SOS website
We liked that this activity followed up with our safe social media.
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9. source: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/labs/video_popup/5/34/
This short video from NOVA labs would be a good wrap-up at the end of the lesson or refresher at the beginning of a subsequent day.
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10. aside about Dale’s personal experience:
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