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Social Engineering: Scam Alert!

Grades 4-6 50-60 minutes Computational Thinking

Students will become members of their school’s Scam Alert Team to help protect their community from internet scams.

Resources

Lesson Plan PDF

Objectives:

  • Compare and contrast websites in order to understand the warning signs of an illegitimate site.
  • Analyze and annotate sample phishing emails.
  • Synthesize their learning as they develop their own scam email and an explanation of the warning signs it includes

Standards alignment

  • English Language Arts: Reading
  • English Language Arts: Writing
  • Standards for Technological Literacy