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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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Communication
Students practice how to be a good listener. They take a pre-test and then discuss their results. They also practice "I" messages in which they state how someone else's behavior is affecting them.
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SHHH It's a Secret
Students rewrite word problems using expressions and equations. In this algebra activity, students use the correct variable to solve and write equations. They use the TI to graph their solution.
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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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Let's Write Around the World
Students participate in an ongoing writing project about the seven world continents. In this continents writing lesson, students work on an interactive game to write about the seven continents. Students locate the continents on the map....
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Cryptography Implementation
Learners explore cryptology. They write a research paper on cryptography. Using linear equations, students invent a code and write a secret message. Learners complete cryptography puzzles.
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Teaching Language Arts with Sayings and Phrases
Students complete a unit to learn sayings and phrases that help them understand language art concepts. In this sayings and phrases lesson, students complete 11 lessons that use common sayings and phrases to teach language art concepts...
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Homophones
Students draw a sketch of each homophone and write sentences with homophones in them. In this homophones lesson plan, students also match homophones in a picture form.
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Critter? Growth
Students identify and use the elements of the scientific inquiry to solve problems. They explain concepts about the structure and properties of matter. Pupils write an explanation of polymers and how the characteristic of polymers...
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Basic Crypto Systems
Students try to solve codes mathematically. The use of a code needs a key. Students try to decipher a code with a mathematical key. This requires focus and higher order thinking skills like analysis.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Encoding and Decoding: Jar Sort
A lesson plan in which young scholars draw letter cards and see how many words they can make from them. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Encoding and Decoding: Vowel Stars
A lesson plan in which students fill in the missing letter with vowels to determine which ones form real words. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Encoding and Decoding: Jar Sort
A lesson plan in which students sort words according to their vowel-r combination. Materials are included.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Caesar Cipher
Create your own affine cipher for encoding and decoding messages. Input your own constant and multiplier, then input a message to encode.
Other
Video Over the Internet
An in-depth document on video and the Internet. Including video & Internet-the problem, solutions & technologies in use, video encoding & decoding.
Other
Pc Guide: Compact Disk Media
This site from the PC Guide provides informative information about compact disk media, with links to construction and manufacture, data encoding and decoding, CD capacity, and formats.
PBS
Pbs Nova: Send a Coded Message Virtual Enigma
Explore the NOVA's Virtual Enigma machine used during WWII. You can send an encrypted message to a friend along with the special key needed to decipher the message. A link is also included to the Virtual Enigma.