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Master Spy

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars 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...
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Learning How to Send Messages in Code

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learning about the use of secret codes can help students practice important skills.
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Patterns of Communication

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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. 
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Little 10 Robot

Operation Math Code Squad

For Students 2nd - 6th Standards
Your mission, if you decide to accept it, is math skills practice. In this app, Mission Impossible meets basic number operation skills, and your students are the secret agents. 
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Squigly's Code Breaker-- Fall Theme

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this language arts learning exercise, students solve a secret code about the season of fall. In the code, students write the letter that comes after the alphabet letter shown. A secret message will be revealed.
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Squigly's Secret Code

For Students 1st - 2nd
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

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this literacy activity, students work to unscramble the secret code. The code is written in symbols that are similar to pictographs.
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Short Ii Words

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this identifying words with the short Ii sounds activity, students use a secret code box with letters and numbers to record and illustrate the short Ii words. Students complete 8 activities.
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Spell Short Ii Words #2

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this spelling short Ii words worksheet, students use a secret code box containing letters and numbers to write and illustrate short Ii words. Students complete 8 answers.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Challenge: Code Breaker

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
Here is a code-breaker multiplication and division game which has learners find the missing letter in equations, then solve and use those letters to "break the code," which actually is the answer to a riddle. Make math fun with a...
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Code.org

Asymmetric Keys – Cups and Beans

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Beans are for more than just counting! Introduce public key cryptography with cups and beans and ask scholars to use the beans to send secret numbers. Participants learn how this activity relates to public key cryptography and asymmetric...
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Art -- The Secret to Freedom

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create a coded message in a quilt. In this art lesson students demonstrate the communication used by the Underground Railroad. Students work in a group to make a quilt with a code in it.
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Code Cracking

For Teachers 5th - 8th
There is nothing more engaging than cracking a secret code! Middle schoolers will replace letters with numbers to solve problems. This game will help them to begin to understand algebra questions by finding the value of missing numbers....
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All Systems Go!

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
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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Secret Pseudo-Protein Code

For Students 8th - 10th
In this protein code worksheet, students are given a table of "Secret Pseudo-Protein Codes". They use the table to decode a DNA sequence and then encode an RNA sequence. They answer questions about the Secret Pseudo-Protein code.
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Study Guide
Spark Notes

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd: Study Guide - Mini Essays

For Students 10th - Higher Ed
In this online interactive literature worksheet, students respond to 9 short answer and essay questions about Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees. Students may check some of their answers online.
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Binary Coding

For Teachers K - 5th
Students identify different uses and forms of coding information, such as memory chips, discuss and create list of everyday items in which memory devices are used, watch video, play Bits and Bytes Game, and use binary code to encode and...
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Shh...It's a Secret!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore codes, decode secret messages, and create codes of their own to use with their friends. They examine the use of gestures, letters, symbols and numbers in codes.
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Shh... It's a Secret!

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine a series of rules for deciphering a code. They create their own secret message using a code after watching video. They access a web site to practice their decoding skills.
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Navajo Code Talkers

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Pupils investigate the Navajo Code Talkers and their role in World War II. They complete a Webquest, explore various websites, encode a short message, analyze maps, answer discussion questions, and read newspaper articles about secure...
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May 24, 1844 - Morse Code Message

For Students 7th - 8th
In this writing prompt worksheet, students learn that May 24, 1844 was the day the first Morse Code message was sent. Students research resources in their classroom to find five facts about Morse Code and summarize them in their own...
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Secret Code

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils in an ESL classroom work together to gather information about one another. After eating a treat, they receive a secret message that they must solve on their own. They use the alphabet and each other eventually to solve the mystery.
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Public Keys, One Way Functions and Hard Problems

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
Use paint to teach about cryptography. Scholars explore public key cryptography by attempting to mix a secret color using paint. After the activity, they investigate the Diffie-Hellman method using prime numbers, exponents, and modular...
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Squiggly's Secret Code

For Students 4th - 5th
In this literacy learning exercise, students use the key to unscramble the code for the fall theme sheet. The code is written in pictographs.

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