Digital Forensics and E-safety SOW

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.