High School Cybersecurity Curriculum & Lesson Plans

High school cybersecurity curriculum

Five units, 24 topic packets, and about 110 class periods of instruction. Editable slides, guided notes, an original scenario in every topic, collaboration activities, AP-style multiple choice and Mini-FRQs, and answer keys for all of it. Independently aligned to the publicly available AP Cybersecurity Course Framework, and sold by the year, the unit, or the single lesson.

1 full course 5 unit bundles 23 single lessons 1 free sample

Full-year courses

The complete year in one purchase: every unit, every lesson, all assessments and answer keys.

Teaching it as a state intro course, or as the AP course

Most states got to cybersecurity before College Board did. Texas has Foundations of Cybersecurity, a one-credit course with no prerequisite. Virginia runs Cybersecurity Fundamentals, course 6302, as its introductory course. The sequence here fits either: teach it as your state intro course now, and the AP alignment is already there if the course gets added later.

If you are new to the subject, the AP Cybersecurity teacher's guide covers the units, the official CED, and the May 2027 exam before you spend anything.

What one topic packet actually holds

All 24 topics ship the same way, so you learn the layout once in August and it holds through May. A branded slide deck with day-by-day kicker labels, guided notes with a key, an original scenario written for this course, a collaboration activity in editable Word and print-ready PDF, five AP-style multiple choice questions with rationales, a Mini-FRQ with a scoring guide, and a self-grading Google Form.

The folders are numbered in the order you open them: 00 Start Here, 01 Present, 02 Student Handouts, 03 Scenario, 04 Collaboration, 05 Assessment, 06 Answer Keys. Topic 1.1 on social engineering is a free download if you want to see the whole two-day packet, keys included, before deciding.

The one course you buy straight from us

This is the only course on the site you buy here rather than on TPT. You pay with a card and the zip downloads on the spot, with lifetime access and free updates through the course's first year. There is no account to keep and no login for your students.

The full course costs less than the five unit bundles bought separately, and it is the only way to get the course-wide bonus folder: three full-length practice exams, MCQ and Mini-FRQ mega banks, a cram pack, a real-world breach case library, no-prep substitute plans, a full-year pacing calendar, a Course Audit and syllabus pack, and a parent letter.

Built for the teacher who did not major in this

The people handed this course are often business and CTE teachers rather than computer science majors, and the course itself assumes students arrive with no prior coding experience. These materials assume the same about the teacher.

Every packet opens with a READ FIRST guide that says what to print and when, every scenario carries a Teacher Key with facilitation moves and sample answers, and each topic includes a Standards and Skills Map you can point to during the AP Course Audit. Unit 5 is the single largest unit at about 30 class periods, so it is worth pacing backward from there.

Unit bundles

One unit at a time, for less than its lessons cost separately. Each includes a unit review and unit test.

Unit 1: Introduction to Security
Unit BundleAP Cybersecurity

Unit 1: Introduction to Security

$17$20
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Unit 2: Securing Spaces
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Unit 2: Securing Spaces

$42$50
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Unit 3: Securing Networks
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Unit 3: Securing Networks

$52$60.5
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Unit 4: Securing Devices
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Unit 4: Securing Devices

$46$54
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Unit 5: Securing Applications & Data
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Unit 5: Securing Applications & Data

$62$72
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