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Week 2: Hack Attack

This week we will be focusing completing out first lesson on Learning Blade. Learning Blade is a complete toolbox of online lessons, projects, and activities designed to grab your attention while introducing you to the careers, tools, and technologies found throughout the STEM fields. 

Mission Goal:
In this mission, your assignment is to help develop improved cyber security to protect your school from future information hacks.

Mission Overview:
Your school was recently hacked by students from a rival school. All of the school’s computers have been locked down, and your robotics team is in danger of not being able to compete in an upcoming robotics completion without access to the project files. In this mission, your goal is to complete their work on the robotics project, and to assist the school in recovering from the hack. You will learn about the technology and careers related to robotics, programming, and cyber security. It is up to you to determine what help is required based on the clues provided. Be aware that there are incorrect options presented. You will then select the appropriate tool(s) and/or teammate(s) for this mission accordingly. As you go through the various activities, you will acquire the tools and teammates to complete the mission.



Objectives:
English
  • Examine the impact social media has on modern communication.
  • Learn how encoded messages create secure communications.
  • Understand the importance of commands in computer languages.
  • Explore how interface design helps sites and applications deliver their messages. 
Mathematics
  • Review some of the calculations required for web and app development.
  • Determine how meaningful web and app usage data is acquired.
  • Calculate the size requirements of the information used in cloud computing.
  • Discover the procedures used in debugging programming code.
Science
  • Review the process of developing user interfaces for websites and applications.
  • Examine how businesses address the issues of cyber security.
  • Discuss the impact social media has on society.
  • ​Explain how meaningful information is pulled from website and app usage data.
Social Studies
  • Explore the history of cloud computing.
  • Examine the way probability is used in computer programming.
  • Understand the need to quickly attract users’ attention with user interfaces.
  • Discover common ways hackers can compromise sites. 

Activities:​ ​ ​
Monday
  • Introduction to Learning Blade 
  • Time to explore missions 
Tuesday- Thursday
  • Complete Hack Attack Mission EXPRESS
  • Complete the Design Thinking Exercise Packet
Friday
  • Time to Finish Mission and Packet
  • ​Breakout EDU

​Due By Friday:
  • Hack Attack Mission completed in Learning Blade
  • Learning Blade Design Thinking Exercise Packet Submitted in Teams
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