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25 Cryptography Lesson Plans
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- 6th - 12th
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Students research the importance and uses of cryptography in World War II. After reviewing several websites and print resources students practice math skills as they create number-based codes with a message designed to stump their classmates. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 5th
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Students perform basic operations in modular (clock) arithmetic. Students encode and decode messages using shift and affine ciphers. Students apply their multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction skills. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students are introduced to the code systems and art of cryptography. As a class, they review prior knowledge and brainstorm lists. Using the internet, they research the history of codes and determine how they are structured. They also try to solve a Edgar Allan Poe mystery. Full Review »
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- 1st - 12th
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Students explore encryption. They discuss the importance of cryptography in our daily lives. Students use games and cryptography to discover transformational geometry and modulo systems. They design their own encryption puzzles and games. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 10th
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Students explore cryptology. They write a research paper on cryptography. Using linear equations, students invent a code and write a secret message. Students complete cryptography puzzles. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students explore the history of cryptography. They assess function notation and transformation, matrix operations, and the fundamentals of modular arithmetic. Using graphing calculators, students develop their own encryption schemes. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 8th
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Students work to decipher a cryptograph. They are introduced to cryptography and its rules for solving word puzzles. After completing a cryptograph related to the space exploration of John Glenn, individual students or student pairs research a space explorer and create a cryptogram based on a quote from their chosen explorer. Full Review »
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- 8th - 10th
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Students brainstorm and discuss the concept of cryptography, the science of secrets in today's world and then focus on a system for sending secret messages used by Julius Caesar. They make a Caesar wheel assessing encrypting and decrypting coded messages. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students discuss what cryptography is and its importance in today's world and focus on a system for sending secret messages used by Julius Caesar around 100 B.C. They make a Caesar wheel used for encrypting and decrypting coded messages and discover how to crack the cody without knowing the encription key. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students, through teacher explanation and guided practice, discover the process involved in using a straddling checkerboard cipher (an encryption method that converts letters and symbols into numbers.) They work together to solve or decipher a given code. Full Review »
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