Skip to main content

Cyber Academy course · Grades 3-5

Passphrase power and privacy smarts

A 14-minute Cyber Academy course for students (elementary) (grades 3-5). Learn to build a strong passphrase with the silly-sentence method, decide what personal information to keep private, spot free-coin and pop-up tricks, and make your own trusted adult plan. 6 sections, 7-question knowledge check and a completion certificate. The companion guide gives managers the outline, a huddle plan and the answer key.

Time to use
14-minute course
Audience
Students, Teachers
Grade band
Grades 3-5
Language
English
Formats
PDF
First page preview of Passphrase power and privacy smarts

What's inside

  • Section: Maya's Saturday morning
  • Section: Build a passphrase: the silly-sentence method
  • Section: What counts as personal information
  • Section: Spot the tricks: pop-ups and free coins
  • Section: Be kind with other people's information
  • Section: Your trusted adult plan
  • 7-question knowledge check with explanations
  • Completion certificate (named accounts)
  • Printable companion guide with facilitator notes and answer key

Learners will be able to

  • Build a passphrase with the silly-sentence method and keep it to yourself and your grown-up
  • Sort personal information you keep private from things that are okay to share
  • Spot the red flags in pop-ups and free game currency offers
  • Ask before sharing a photo or information about someone else
  • Make a trusted adult plan and know what to say

More pages

How to use and print

The course runs in Cyber Academy; this companion guide prints double-sided on Letter for managers and facilitators.

Participating districts download the same files co-branded with their own name and logo, and the QR codes count scans for their campaign reports.

Supports these rubric areas

  • Awareness & Training
  • Identity Management, Authentication, and Access Control
  • Data Security
  • NIST CSF PR.AT
  • NIST CSF PR.AA
  • NIST CSF PR.DS

Part of

Classroom lesson · Teachers, Students

Passphrase power

Students play a password guessing race to see why every extra word makes a password much harder to guess, learn the silly-sentence and random-word methods for building a passphrase, practice building one (practice only, never a real password), and agree never to reuse passwords or share them except with a trusted adult.

  • 40-minute lesson
  • Grades 3-5
  • English · Español
  • DOCX, PDF, PPTX

Classroom lesson · Teachers, Students

Tricks and traps online

Students learn the most common tricks they meet in games, videos and messages: free game currency offers, fake prize pop-ups, messages pretending to be a friend, requests for personal information and AI-made pictures that look real. They practice naming the red flag in each trick and choosing a safe move: pause, check with a trusted adult and use the real app or a known route.

  • 45-minute lesson
  • Grades 3-5
  • English · Español
  • DOCX, PDF, PPTX

Flash-n-Flush one-pager · All staff

Fresh start, fresh passphrase

July staff edition for all school staff. Over the summer, old passwords, forgotten app accounts and stale shared folders pile up.

  • 90-second read
  • English
  • PDF

Cyber Academy course · Students, Teachers

Game chat, DMs and your accounts: spot the scam, keep control

See how free-currency links, fake verification messages, trade scams and sign-in code requests take over game and social accounts, and lock yours down with passphrases, two-step sign-in, privacy settings and a plan for getting help.

  • 16-minute course
  • Grades 6-8
  • English
  • Online course (sign in)

Sources