Students discover and identify cryptology used in everyday life. They decipher or crack codes. Students create their own secret writing or coded messages, and develop a dictionary of eponyms. They discuss how they have already...

Learners explore the lives of spies. In this secret government agencies instructional activity, students visit the Imperial War Museum and the Essex Secret Bunker online or in person to discover details about Britain's spies and...

Students examine the role of signal corps during the Civil War and explore the technique of 'wigwag.' In this Civil War instructional activity, students discuss the way they communicate long distance today, they research how a civil war...

Young scholars identify Roman numerals and the history associated with them.  In this historical number activity, students investigate charts and photographs to discover the history of Roman numerals.  Young scholars bring a...

Students interpret and identify the elements of folktales, with an emphasis on tall tales, in this lesson. Students utilize brainstorming techniques to list ways people communicate. Students also read and create a time line and present...