School student Maria has gone missing. Over a series of 7 lessons, students need to look at metadata, location data, instagram and messages from Maria’s phone that she has left at home. Students look at a series of witness statements and search Maria’s bedroom for clues as to where Maria could be. This SOW also has an escape room style activity of the crime scene where Maria is found (alive). It covers e-safety and the signs of grooming. It also covers brute force attacks, VPNs, Cookies, Internet history and deleting files from hard drive, giving students a good insight into how our own personal data is tracked online and on our personal devices. Each lesson has a teacher powerpoint and full resources for the lesson. It also has a learning journey and a vocabulary list for students to refer to. The SOW finishes off with an assessment. This SOW was throughly enjoyed by our Year 9s. The first four lessons had them hanging on to every word and leaving lessons on a cliff hanger about what had happend to Maria. This is not your average e-safety SOW, it gives students real practical advice about how much data they give away such as when they post on instagram.

This series of 7 lessons, allows students to investigate the fictional case of missing school girl, Maria. They will look at witness statements, metadata on images, IP addresses and location settings and plot these on Google Map. They look at Maria’s messages and instagram post to see if these give them any clues. They look at the different signs of grooming and why someone might be vulnerable to this. Students search Maria’s bedroom (escape room style activity) for clues. They search a spreadsheet of suspects and finally they search the crimescene (escape room activity) and find Maria. Other topics covered in this SOW is brute force attacks, VPNs, cookies, internet history and deleting files from hard drives. There are also aspects of internet reliability such as fake reviews and ethical issues such as diet pills. This SOW gives students a taster of GCSE Computer Science whilst covering e-safety and grooming in an engaging and fun way. This SOW comes with full lesson powerpoints with vocabulary list, learning journey and worksheets for students to complete. This SOW has been tried and tested with our Y9s who absolutely loved it. The first 4 lessons leave students on a cliff hanger at the end of the lesson and so they were eager to know what had happened to Maria.