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Week 11 · Keeping information safe

Crew Quest

Crew Quest: Family safe info check
// Locks, copies and tricky messages
⏱ about 15 min

Crew Quest: Family safe info check

Saturday in the bay, Rocket draws a big shield on paper. "Our family shield!" he says. "Every lock we learned goes on it."

Raven adds a small heart in the corner. "What do you notice is missing? The plan for feelings belongs here too."

Nova glows a calm green. "Would you like a hint? A shield is strongest when everyone holds it together."

  1. A password is a key. Longer is stronger. A grown-up keeps the keys.
  2. Updates close holes in software. Save first, then a grown-up starts the update.
  3. A backup is a second copy in a different place. Copy, check, keep it elsewhere.
  4. Tricky messages use hurry, prizes, fear and secrets. Stop, think, tell.
  5. A worried feeling is a signal. Stop, close, tell a grown-up.

The family shield

Draw a large shield on paper. Split it into four parts.

Label the parts: Keys, Updates, Copies, Messages. In each part, write one family rule.

Leave space at the bottom for the plan. Stop, think, tell.

◇ SAFE INFO CHECK
Sit with a grown-up and your shield. Go through the four parts together.
Keys: the grown-up says where the family keeps its passwords, without saying any password.
Updates: look at one device together and check if an update is waiting.
Copies: ask where a backup of family photos lives, or could live.
Messages: each person describes one tricky message they have seen.
Finish by reading the plan out loud together.
Safety first
Nobody says a password out loud during this activity.
If an update is waiting, a grown-up decides when to run it.
Only a grown-up plugs in a backup drive.
For a grown-up
This is a chance to set one or two simple family rules. Write them down.
Keep it light. The goal is a child who tells you when something feels wrong.
Praise every question your child asks, even the ones you cannot answer yet.
SHIELD CHECK
  • Read the question.
  • Tap your answer.
Which part of the shield is about a second copy?
Who keeps the family passwords?
A message makes you feel rushed. What comes first?
StatementTrue or false?
A longer password is stronger.?
Two copies on one device are a backup.?
Hurry words are a warning sign.?
Kids should fix tricky messages alone.?
WHY THIS EXERCISEEach part of the shield protects one kind of risk.

Shield complete, Crew Technician! Your family has locks, copies and a plan. Next week is the last one: you will design a computer for a purpose.

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