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Computers & Digital Literacy · Grade 9

Respond to a Fictional Incident

Learners follow a fictional food pantry through a realistic account-compromise incident, from a lookalike email to a copied volunteer list. They learn the phases and roles of incident response, separate events from incidents and rate severity, build a timeline from several logs while preserving evidence, and practice clear, factual communication and a blameless post-incident review with owned action items.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 115 minutes
  • Incident response check: 10 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, highlight a text, match pairs, type a number, put in order and sort into groups
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What learners will discover

  • Describe the incident-response phases (prepare, detect and analyze, contain, eradicate, recover, review) and the roles of a response team.
  • Triage activity: distinguish events from incidents and rate severity using the harm to data, people and operations and whether harm is ongoing.
  • Build an incident timeline from several log sources, calculate time intervals, and preserve evidence while recording every response action.
  • Communicate an incident factually and helpfully, and run a blameless post-incident review that turns root causes into owned action items.

Lessons

  1. The shape of a response 6 steps3 practiceabout 25 min
  2. Triage: what is it, and how bad? 5 steps3 practiceabout 25 min
  3. Timeline and evidence 6 steps4 practiceabout 30 min
  4. Communicate and learn 5 steps2 practiceabout 35 min
  5. Incident response check 10 questions at the end

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