Program

Cybersecurity

Becoming Digital Heroes — staying safe online, protecting your information, and making responsible choices with technology.

Students become Digital Heroes: learning how to stay safe online, protect their information, recognize safe and unsafe situations, and make responsible choices while using technology.

Learning objectives

  • Understand what online safety means and why it matters
  • Create strong passwords and keep them private
  • Recognize what counts as personal information
  • Identify suspicious messages, links and situations
  • Practise digital citizenship and kindness online
  • Demonstrate safe habits when using technology

Start here

Course lessons

  1. Hello Digital Heroes!

    What cybersecurity and digital citizenship mean. Vocabulary: computer, internet, safety, digital hero. Activity: design a Digital Hero badge.

  2. My Secret Password

    Strong passwords versus weak ones, and why they stay private. Activity: build a password from a favourite animal, colour and number.

  3. Stranger Danger Online

    People online may not be who they say. Protecting personal information and telling a trusted adult. Activity: sort statements into safe and unsafe to share.

  4. Spot the Scam!

    Recognizing fake messages, suspicious links and pop-ups. Activity: identify which emails are safe and which are suspicious.

  5. Be Kind Online

    Respect, digital etiquette and cyberbullying awareness. Activity: create kindness posters.

  6. Cyber Hero Mission

    A six-station final project covering passwords, scam detection, protecting a computer, email safety and kindness — ending in certification.