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Defense: American Indian Heritage Month: Code Talkers
Find out about the Native Americans who used their tribal languages as code during World War I and World War II. Includes information on Charles Chibitty, a Comanche code talker who was inducted into the Pentagon's Hall of Heroes.
DOGO Media
Dogo News: Hour of Code Is Designed to Inspire Kids From 4 to 104!
From December 5-11, millions of kids in over 180 countries will take the Hour of Code challenge. The annual initiative, which coincides with Computer Science week, is organized by Seattle-based non-profit Code.org to demystify the world...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Cracking the Code: Explore a Stretch of Code
Investigate the makeup and function of genes and genetic code by exploring an actual stretch of human DNA in this activity.
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Medium: 4 Ways to Make Your Code More Reusable
Reusable code saves time, energy and cost making it vital in software development. Consider four essential attributes to make code more reusable.
Code.org
Code.org: Cs Fundamentals: Lesson 4: Debugging With Laurel
Students will practice debugging in the "collector" environment. Students will get to practice reading and editing code to fix puzzles with simple algorithms, loops and nested loops.
NASA
Nasa: Spitzer Science Center: Code of Faraway Worlds
Under the heading, "Cracking the Code of Faraway Worlds" this site explores the uses of spectrum (and spectrograph, spectra) in planetary study. In addition to an image, a description of spectrum and its uses in space science is provided.
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Teaching Data Science: Teaching Refactoring to Improve Code
Learn how to use refactoring to improve computer code.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Early Experiments on the Genetic Code
Read a passage about early experiments on the genetic code and answer the follow-up questions.
Education.com
Education.com: Morse Code Messaging
[Free Registration/Login Required] One of the most important code systems invented is the internationally-recognized Morse code, which matches dots and dashes to letters of the alphabet. This revolutionized communication by sending...
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: The 1890s: Black Codes
Here is a brief description of Black Codes, which were set in place in Texas in 1866 and "outlined a status for African Americans not too much removed from their earlier condition as slaves."
Google
Cs Education at Google: Cs First: Gumball's Coding Adventure
Teaches basic computer science concepts using the programming language Scratch. In this activity, learners use characters from Cartoon Network's "The Amazing World of Gumball" to create an animated story.
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Code.org: Building a Foundation
In this activity, students work in small groups to construct a tower that will support a book using everyday materials. The goal is to develop persistence in continuing with a task even when experiencing some failures. This is modeled...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Code Switch: The Racial History of the "Grandfather Clause"
Learn the origin of the term "grandfathering in" and how it affected African-American voting rights from the 1870s until 1939.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Ancient Mesopotamia for Kids: Code of Hammurabi
On this site, students can learn about the history of the Code of Hammurabi. One of the first written records of a code of law by the Babylonians.
Blackdog Media
Classic Reader: "Not According to the Code" by Robert Barr
Text of the short story "Not According to the Code" by Robert Barr, a Scottish author. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)
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Directi: Code Chef
CodeChef provides a platform for computer programmers to practice their skills through posted problems where users can submit their solutions in the language of their choice. They can also interact with a community of fellow programmers...
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Code.org: Unplugged: Digital Citizenship
This lesson helps students learn to think critically about the user information that some websites request or require. Students learn the difference between private information and personal information and distinguishing what is safe and...
PBS
Pbs News Hour Extra: The Human Genome Project, a Decade Later
This article reviews advances made by medical researchers since the complete mapping of the human genetic code ten years earlier. Although the expectation then had been that cures could be found for many diseases based on this new...
Code.org
Code.org: Cs Fundamentals: My Loopy Robotic Friends
A reintroduction to loops, using the set of "robot" programming instructions. Students will develop critical thinking skills by looking for patterns of repetition in the movements of classmates and determining how to simplify those...
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina: Pixel Flow Code Cracking
This article reveals some techniques and vulnerabilities in Unix-based computer networks.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Connecting With Digital Audiences
Code-switching is the action of changing your language, behavior, or appearance based on who you're with or where you are. In this lesson, learners will apply the idea of code-switching to how they use phones and other devices in and...
Bio Topics
Bio Topics: How Dna Controls Protein Synthesis by Means of a Base Code
A worksheet and comprehensive notes discussing how DNA controls protein synthesis by means of a base code.
Indiana University
Ensi: Comparison of Human: Chimpanzee Chromosomes Lesson
This is a great lesson plan that combines Karoytypes and evolution. Students will recognize that the chromosomes of chimpanzees and humans are remarkably similar, then correlate that to their evolutionary relationship.
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Heraldica: History of Orders of Chivalry: A Survey
A detailed analysis of the orders and codes that governed the behavior of knights.
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