Digital Forensic/e-safety SOW

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.