Middle Years Cybersecurity (MyCyber)

Presentation for CS Summit

A course for middle school students with engaging activities to appeal to a broad range of interests.

Find resources at mcce.info/mycyber

10 units that include activities presentations, lesson plans, and student handouts (approx. 9 weeks of content)

1. Introduction to Cybersecurity

2. Digital Systems and Networking

3. What is Cybersecurity?

4. Physical vs Digital Security

5. Cyberspace and Connections

6. Cyber Threats and Threat Prevention

7. Encryption, Computational Thinking, Ciphers and Steganography

8. Data Security

9. System Security

10. Careers and Cyber Pathways

View the Big Ideas in Cybersecurity with Enduring Understandings as they apply to middle school to build and broad and diverse pathway into cyber.