🎯 What you will learn
- Why passwords matter
- How to make a long, memorable passphrase
- Who you can share passwords with
👋 Let’s get started!
A password is like the key to your secret clubhouse 🏰. If it’s easy to guess, anyone can get in! Experts at NIST say the best passwords are LONG — so let’s make some silly, super-strong passphrases.
🪜 Step by step
1. 🔑 Why passwords?
Passwords protect your games, schoolwork and messages from people who shouldn’t see them.
2. 📏 Long beats tricky
A long passphrase like “purple-tiger-eats-tacos” is much harder to crack than “P@ss1”.
3. 🙅 Avoid easy guesses
Never use your name, birthday, pet’s name or “password123”.
4. 🔁 Different for each account
Use a different password for each important account so one leak doesn’t unlock everything.
5. 👪 Share with grown-ups only
Your parent or guardian can help keep a list. Never share passwords with friends.
📖 Key words
Tap a card to flip it over!
- Password
- A secret code that protects an account 🔑
- Passphrase
- A password made of several words 🐯🌮
- Hacker
- Someone who tries to break into computers 🕵️
- MFA
- A second check, like a code sent to a phone 📲
🎨 Practice activity
🎲 Pick three random words from a book, add a number and a symbol, and draw a picture of your passphrase. (Don’t use it for real — just practice!)
🖐️ Try it yourself
- Play the Password Power game 🎮
- Think of three silly words 🤪
- Join them with dashes ➖
- Add a number and a symbol ❗
- Tell a grown-up how long your practice passphrase is 📏
Knowledge Check Quiz
- Which password is strongest?
- Who can you share your password with?
- Should you use the same password everywhere?