Internet Safety: Password Power Up

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🎯 Aim

Today you will learn how to keep your passwords safe and secure.

🔐 Keep Passwords Safe Think about ways to protect your passwords.

🛡️ Create Strong Passwords Find strategies to make passwords secure but memorable.

💬 Deal With Cyberbullying Understand what to do if you are confronted with cyberbullying.

🧠 Think Before You Share Understand why passwords should be kept private.

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💡 Be Inspired

The first story from Caught In The Web is about Lucy.

Lucy’s phone isn't protected by a password. When her phone is stolen, she experiences cyberbullying.

🌐 Caught In The Web — BBC Newsround

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🔎 Check It Out

According to research, some of the most commonly used web passwords are things like 123456 and password.

They are easy to remember, but that makes them just as easy to hack.

If you use the same password across multiple accounts, you could put all of your data at risk.

Today you need to think about how you can keep your passwords safe.

🔐 Think carefully about what makes a password strong.

🧠 Make it memorable — but difficult for others to guess.

🚫 Never use obvious passwords such as 123456 or password.

🔄 Don't reuse passwords across different accounts.

🛡️ Keep your password private.

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💪 Do It Yourself

Can you design a poster with five top tips for creating a strong password?

🎨 Your Challenge

Create a clear and colourful poster showing five top tips for making a safe password.

Think about:
🔐 Making passwords difficult to guess
🧠 Making them easy for you to remember
🚫 Avoiding obvious passwords
🔄 Not using the same password everywhere
🤫 Keeping your password private

🛑 Stuck? Stop → Think → Ask. Try to solve it yourself before asking for help.

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⭐ Extension

Finished your poster? Try creating a password using DinoPass.

🚀 Password Challenge

Visit DinoPass and explore how it can create passwords for you.

Think about whether the passwords it creates would be suitable for a real account.

⭐ Challenge: Can you explain why a password might be strong or weak?

💡 Think like a security expert: Would you use a password like this for something important? Why or why not?

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🏆 Finished!

Well done! You have finished your Password Power Up lesson!

💭 Before You Leave...

🔐 Can you remember five tips for creating a strong password?

🛡️ Do you know why you should keep your password private?

🧠 Do you know what makes a password difficult to guess?

💬 Do you know what to do if you experience cyberbullying?

🎉 Password Power Up complete!

Remember: strong passwords help keep your accounts and information safe.

Think. Create. Explore. Be Responsible.

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Password Power-Up!

Can you become a Password Protector?

Your mission is to prove that you know how to keep passwords, accounts and people safe online.

🚀 Answer the questions
🛡️ Earn Password Power
⭐ Become a Cyber Safety Expert

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Mission Complete!