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Flash-n-Flush one-pager · Grades 6-12

Flash-n-Flush: Your code is your key. Don't hand it over.

A restroom-stall one-pager for students in grades 6-12 (cybersecurity awareness month). Most account takeovers don't take hacking skills. Three tips — Codes are for you only; One long passphrase per account; Surprise code? Lock it down — a spot-the-scam text message with 5 red flags and the answer printed upside down, a sourced fun fact, a 60-second action and a QR code to a free two-minute lesson.

Time to use
90-second read
Audience
Students
Grade band
Grades 6-12
Language
English and Spanish
Formats
PDF
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What's inside

  • Headline story: Your code is your key. Don't hand it over.
  • Three quick tips: Codes are for you only; One long passphrase per account; Surprise code? Lock it down
  • Spot-the-scam text message puzzle (5 red flags) with the answer upside down
  • Fun fact: The U.S. cyber defense agency CISA calls phishing-resistant sign-ins the gold standard, and says FIDO/WebAuthn, the tech in security keys and built-in phone and laptop sign-ins, is the only widely available kind.
  • 60-second action, who-to-tell plate and QR code to a two-minute lesson
  • Colour and black-and-white editions, English and Spanish

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Files

FileFormatLanguageSize
Colour one-pager, Letter PDF (English)PDFEnglish131 KBDownload
Black-and-white one-pager, Letter PDF (English)PDFEnglish129 KBDownload
Colour one-pager, Letter PDF (Español)PDFEspañol135 KBDownload
Black-and-white one-pager, Letter PDF (Español)PDFEspañol133 KBDownload

How to use and print

Print on Letter paper at 100% (no 'fit to page'). The colour edition prints well on office colour printers; the B/W edition is toner-friendly for copiers. Laminate or slide into a stall-door sleeve; swap monthly.

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
  • NIST CSF PR.AT
  • NIST CSF PR.AA

Part of

Cyber Academy course · Students, Teachers

Protect your accounts, your money and your future

Lock down your accounts against takeover, recognize the job, scholarship and registration scams aimed at teens, know exactly what to do if someone threatens to share images of you, verify AI fakes and clean up your digital footprint before applications.

  • 18-minute course
  • Grades 9-12
  • English
  • Online course (sign in)

Classroom lesson · Teachers, Students

Account takeover

Students learn the five common routes to account takeover (password reuse and credential stuffing, phishing kits, one-time-code tricks and SIM swaps), compare defenses from passphrases and password managers to app-based MFA, number matching and passkeys, then run a tabletop exercise: a friend's account was hijacked and their group has 10 minutes to build a recovery plan as new problems arrive.

  • 50-minute lesson
  • Grades 9-12
  • English · Español
  • DOCX, PDF, PPTX

Flash-n-Flush one-pager · All staff

Didn't sign in? Don't tap Approve.

October staff edition for all school staff. Your sign-in code or approval prompt is the lock on your account.

  • 90-second read
  • English
  • PDF

Flash-n-Flush one-pager · Students

Free skins are the bait. You're the catch.

September student edition for students in grades 6-12. Game chat scams look like a friendly trade, a giveaway or a 'mod' who needs to check your account.

  • 90-second read
  • Grades 6-12
  • English · Español
  • PDF

Sources