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Fraction Message
Learners practice identifying fractional parts represented in pictures and phrases. In this fraction instructional activity, students determine the proportion represented by common time and money phrases such as "3 hours in a day"....
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Code
In this code instructional activity, students use the code in the box to solve the message below. Students have 12 boxes to figure out the code for.
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Packets and Making a Reliable Internet
That's not what I said! My message did not arrive in the correct order! Introduce the concept of packets and the transmission control protocol used to send and receive information over the Internet. The class participates in an...
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The Need for Addressing
You sunk my battleship via the Internet? Groups of three play a modified game of Battleship using the Internet Simulator. Team members determine how to address messages, so each player knows who the message is for, and refine their text...
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Routers and Redundancy
How are messages to the right recipient? Introduce the concept of routing Internet traffic by drawing a comparison to sending a letter. Groups use the Internet Simulator program to send messages to others using the same router...
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Challenge: Funky Frog
You haven't seen any large-mouth frogs around have you? Hopefully, there will be lots of them as your young JavaScript coders complete this task to create a frog with a wide mouth and use variables in a way that connect the frog face...
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Challenge: My Favorite Foods
Create a list of your favorite foods while you practice writing text in JavaScript. Use fill, textSize, and text functions. This is a quick activity that helps solidify basic skills. Expand with additional challenges...
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Keys and Passwords
Scholars explore the relationship between cipher keys and passwords and as they learn more about the Vigenere cipher and continue to read from the book Blown to Bits in the seventh lesson of the series. They conduct an activity where...
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Master Spy
Students explain that a code is a system of symbols, letters, words, or signals that are used instead of ordinary words and numbers to send messages or to store information. They practice deciphering a variety of secret codes used in...
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Signaling: merit badge
In this signaling worksheet, students use their workbook to answer short answer questions about different ways to send and receive messages. Students complete 6 questions total to get their merit badge.
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Meet the Recycle Guys
In this recycling activities worksheet, students draw lines to connect the names of the Recycle Guys to their pictures and use a number-letter code to find their secret message. Students write 37 answers.
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Christmas Addition Mystery Message
In this Christmas-themed worksheet, students solve 14 problems that require them to add 1-digit numbers to 1-digit numbers. Students use their answers and the code box to reveal a mystery message.
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Christmas Addition Mystery Message 2
In this Christmas-themed worksheet, students solve 44 problems that require them to add 1-digit numbers to 1-digit numbers. Students use their answers and the code box to reveal a mystery message.
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Christmas Addition Mystery Message 3
In this Christmas-themed worksheet, students solve 14 problems that require them to add 1-digit numbers to 1-digit numbers. Students use their answers and the code box to reveal a mystery message.
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Halloween Addition Mystery Message
In this Halloween-themed learning exercise, students solve 14 problems that require them to add 1-digit numbers to 1-digit numbers. Students use their answers and the code box to reveal a mystery message.
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Thanksgiving Addition Mystery Message
In this Thanksgiving-themed worksheet, students solve 17 problems that require them to add 1-digit numbers to 1-digit numbers. Students use their answers and the code box to reveal a mystery message.
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Thanksgiving Addition Mystery Message 2
In this Thanksgiving-themed instructional activity, learners solve 17 problems that require them to add 1-digit numbers to 1-digit numbers. Students use their answers and the code box to reveal a mystery message.
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Secret Code
For this multiplication puzzle worksheet, students find the products to 18 elementary multiplication problems. They solve the code using the letters assigned to each product. They read the secret message.
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Miscast and Seldom Seen
Consider how well students' favorite TV shows, movies and video games reflect the diversity of society. The lesson introduces your class to several media literacy concepts, such as how media conveys values and messages, as well as the...
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All Systems Go!
Secret codes are so much fun, and a great way to practice nearly any math skill. Let your class become code breakers as they investigate inverse matrices. They use TI-Nspire technology to solve systems of equations which help them crack...
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Code Breakers
Students collect data and make a frequency table, change ratios into percents, and analyze data to make predictions.
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CodeBreaker! | Music Theory Worksheet - Treble Clef Note Names
In this music notes learning exercise, students decode a message with the letter names of notes. They analyze the eight labeled notes on the treble clef and write the letter names of the notes underneath them. A secret message will be...
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U Boat Hunt
Learners recognize patterns and sequences in numbers. In this geometry lesson plan, students create rules to define the sequences and patterns they obsere. They translate coded messages as they dicuss navigational terms.
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Da Vinci: Machines Exhibition
Transportation devices, military devices, mechanical devices, entertainment devices. The inventions of Leonardo da Vinci are legendary. After viewing images of da Vinci's inventions, class members are encouraged to draft their own...