Educators

Bexar County Information Technology (BCIT)

This website helps citizens access demographic, geographic, and historical data more easily than ever before! From this site you can also access our open data portal for even more information. Click here to view the maps.

Centers for Cyber Safety and Education (CCSE)

CCSE is sharing much of its cyber safety material for free. They do have an offer for a three Garfield cyber comic book bundle for $17.00.

Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security (CIAS)

CIAS the creators of Cyber Threat Defender and other cyber games has downloadable content. You can download their games for free, which teach cyber defense and attack, cyber safety, and encryption. CIAS has also created content for elementary school children called Culture of Cybersecurity.

CodingWizards HQ

CodingWizards HQ is offering 46 free classes for coding websites and apps.

Code HS

This is the first course in the cybersecurity pathway and will prepare students for an advanced cybersecurity course and/or cybersecurity certification(s). Students will learn cybersecurity topics such as software security, networking, system administration, and the basics of cryptography and programming.

Cyber.org

CYBER.ORG empowers educators to teach cyber confidently, resulting in students with the skills and passion needed to succeed in the cyber workforce.

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

The FBI has a learning material for children for internet safety from 3rd to 8th graders.

Microsoft Education Center

The Microsoft Education Center has many different activities for students. They have material for different age groups 3-6, 6-9, and 9-12.

National Integrated Cyber Education Research Center (NICERC)

NICERC is offering access to much of its curriculum.

Nepris

Create a free Nepris profile here

We’re giving every parent, student, and educator unlimited access to our LIVE Industry Chats from home through April 30th. If you have kids, they can now hear directly from experts on how their learning applies in the real world though LIVE virtual sessions. Parents and students who are 13+ can create their own account and tune in! Share this email with fellow parents so they can create their FREE Nepris profile to connect their kids.

NIST

As a part of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week is October 18 – 23. NIST has condensed a lot of good information here and especially under “Discovering Cybersecurity Careers”.

PC Matic

PC Matic, American cybersecurity firm, announced it is offering free cybersecurity and remote management tools to K-12 schools utilizing e-learning and non-profit organizations who are aiding in COVID-19 relief efforts

Principles of Cybersecurity

This program includes everything you need to teach a Cybersecurity course and help prepare students for industry-recognized certification: CompTIA Security+ and Microsoft MTA Security Fundamentals. The certification-driven text is designed with effective pedagogical elements – pretests and posttests, certification objectives, essential questions, key terms, and learning goals, plus formative and summative assessments and activities – to foster critical-thinking, research, and communication skills.

Project Lead The Way

PLTW Computer Science empowers students to become creators, instead of merely consumers, of the technology all around them. The program engages students in collaborative projects that help them develop in-demand computer science knowledge as well as transportable skills like creative thinking and communication. And whether they’re creating an online art gallery or using automation to process and analyze DNA-sequence data, PLTW Computer Science students are seeing how their learning connects to the real world.

REX Academy

Cybersecurity is surely a mainstream term however we simplify the concept of Cybersecurity by providing the tools and knowledge to our students to gather information ethically. By doing so we provide abilities to understand the industry hard concept by comparing them to videos games and basic historical concepts. With the world around us changing every single day we find ourselves wanting to protect our information the best we possibly can. This course starts immediately with the history and concept of hacking. Join this course to go on a Cybersecurity Adventure!In this class students will learn about how to protect networks, computers, and data from malware,virus,attack, damage, and unauthorized access.