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Personal Telephone Numbers: Deciphering a Message
In this deciphering a message learning exercise, students decipher 23 names of famous people given a phone number. Students use the numbers and letters on a telephone key pad to decipher phone numbers into names.
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Secret Messages
What a fun way to have your class practice reading skills. Learners decipher secret messages hidden in a word using the clues provided. It is a great way to have your class practice their reading and spelling skills. This technique could...
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Morning Message-Mystery Code
Students copy and figure out the Mystery Codeword each day. They copy Mystery Code into journal. They match the number with the letter to decipher the code word. They draw a picture to match code word. At the end of the week, the...
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Secret Message: Worksheet #1
In this following directions instructional activity, students will have to follow 12 directions in order to decipher a secret message. The message is "Solar energy is renewable."
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Coded Message Game
In this coded message learning exercise, students use the two-digit numbers and letters of the alphabet code to decipher a quote about the brain from Santiago Ramon y Cajal. Students decode eighteen words.
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Save Our Ship!
In this deciphering a message worksheet, students utilize a Morse code alphabet key to decipher a message to the captain of the Titanic.
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Decoding a Mystery Message from Space
Students examine a message sent from outer space and do their best to interpret its meaning. In this problem solving lesson, students investigate a code sent to them from "outer space." The students collaborate with their classmates to...
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Code Fun
In this picture code activity, students use the code key to decipher a message. The symbols are ovals, circles and squares with intricate designs.
Shodor Education Foundation
Spy Game
Turn young scholars into detectives as they decipher encrypted messages. Introduce your class to modular arithmetic and have a little fun encrypting and decoding secret messages. The activity does not hit many content standards, but...
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Cryptogram: Can You Figure Out What the Message Says?
In this cryptogram worksheet, learners use the letter and number code key to decipher the 12 words in a secret message about geography.
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Detective Digis and the Computer Caper
Mathematicians participate in an hands-on activity to investigate the binary number system and write messages in binary code and have classmates decipher the messages. A said video on the topic does not seem to be available, but the...
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Squigly's Secret Code
In this Valentine's Day worksheet, students decipher a message by analyzing a given code. In the code, each letter of the alphabet is represented by a symbol.
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Squigly's Secret Code
In this word puzzle worksheet, learners decipher the answer to a "secret code." Students analyze a code in which each letter of the alphabet is represented by a symbol.
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Squigly's Secret Code
In this secret code worksheet, students decipher the answer to Squigly's secret code by printing the letter on the line given that goes with each symbol.
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Cryptography and Cryptanalysis
For this cryptography and cryptanalysis worksheet, 8th graders read the explanation and example for codes and ciphers, then answer 2 questions and decipher 2 messages.
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Deciphering Morse Code
Students write and decode messages using Morse code, as Civil War soldiers might have done. They use a worksheet imbedded in this lesson to help them experience morse code.
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Decipher This!
Learners are introduced to the Rosetta Stone and asked to consider the difficulties of translating ancient texts. They write a message in hieroglyphics and translate each other's work. They evaluate their translations.
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Decoding the Spelling Words
For this spelling worksheet, students use the key to decode 20 spelling words. Students decipher the words and write them on the lines.
Desert Discoveries
Conservation Cartoons
Third graders read and create cartoons about endangered and threatened species of plants. Pupils are split up into groups. They each consider a conservation cartoon and attempt to decipher its meaning. They must decide if they agree or...
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Lesson: Paul Chan: Alternumeric Fonts
Learning to analyze language, symbols, and codes is part of becoming a deep and critical thinker. Young analysts consider their ability to see hidden messages as they analyze the work of Paul Chan. There are two fully developed...
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Algebra: Introduction to Algebraic Expressions
Seventh graders, in an introductory algebra class, code and decode messages using substitution ciphers. Role-playing as mathematicians, they work in groups to decipher several messages, one of which translates to "math is awesome."
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Code Fun
In this code worksheet, students use the code key at the bottom of the page to decipher a message. The code key features lines in different configurations.
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Patterns of Communication
Scholars examine codes, symbols, and other forms of communication. They discuss Morse Code. Next, they are given messages written in code, which they must decipher.
Scholastic
Think it Through
What does the media tell the teenagers about using marijuana? Help class members decipher what they are being told about drug use with a lesson on editorial cartoons, subliminal messages, and critical thinking skills.