Locks for Your Accounts: teacher key

Staying Safe Online, grade 6 edition, written for 6th grade. Strong passwords are only the start. See how two-step verification, cookies, secure connections and careful reading protect you online.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What does two-step verification ask for besides your password?
   • A second proof that it is really you (answer)
   • A longer username
   • A new phone
2. Why is a different password for each account safer?
   • It is faster to type
   • One stolen password cannot open everything (answer)
   • Passwords expire
3. What can cookies be misused to do?
   • Link your visits and searches together (answer)
   • Delete your browser
   • Speed up Wi-Fi
4. What does a padlock or https at the start of a web address show?
   • The site is famous
   • A site's connection is secure (answer)
   • The site is free
5. What does lateral reading mean?
   • Leaving an unfamiliar site and opening new tabs to see what trusted sources say about it (answer)
   • Reading a page twice
   • Reading from right to left
6. What can you do with mean messages?
   • Block the sender (answer)
   • Forward them
   • Answer angrily

Words

• cookies: saved data bits
• authentication: proving identity
• misinformation: false things spreading
• phishing: tricks for information