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Squigly's Secret Code

For Students 4th - 6th
In this secret code worksheet, learners 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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Vowel Sounds -- Short Ee Words

For Students K - 2nd
In this letter and number recognition worksheet, students use a secret code box to help them spell 20 short Ee words.
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Secret Code 3

For Students K - 2nd
In this letter and number recognition activity, students use a secret code box to help them spell 4 short "Aa" words. Students then draw pictures of the words.
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The College Student Letter Home

For Students 7th - 10th
In this student letter home activity, students solve a cryptogram.  They transpose letters to the desired digits to create a correct addition problem.  This one-page activity contains 1 problem.  Solutions are provided at the bottom of...
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ESOL Telephone Communication

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students discuss the importance of leaving an appropriate message on an answering machine or voice mail system. They write a message for a friend and in pairs take turns reading their message while their partner writes it down.
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Keyboarding - Decoding the Keys

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students work in pairs to decipher encoded messages. They read off descriptions of each letter's location on the keyboard and type them into a document to form a message.
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Email Around the World

For Teachers K - 12th
Students send and receive e-mail messages and find the location of each of the messages on a map. Students then write a description and trivia facts about their school to send to others.
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Ordinary People, Ordinary Places: The Civil Rights Movement

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze Martin Luther King's message of nonviolent protest discover how individuals adapted his message to their own communities and situations.
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Why We Communicate

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students identify the three common reasons for communication: information, persuasion, and entertainment. They create media messages for different purposes and develop a purpose of message shapes and how it helps shape the message.
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Orienteering

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students proceed through a simple course following a map but not using a compass. They must find 18 controls working in pairs that leave at 2 minute intervals. Students must record letter and after finding all 18 controls they will...
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Basic Crypto Systems II

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders discuss the Enigma machine used during World War II. They explore the substitution cipher and variations of it. Students examine the advantages and disadvantages of this cipher. Students write a message using the code...
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Secret Code

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students 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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Directory

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars make a directory and save a mail message as a file in this new directory. They edit the file using a text editor (Pico) and save it as a new file.
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Mail Utility

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students review that school computers are connected to a remote computer. They login to a remote computer, access an online mail program, write and send 3 messages to classmates.
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Letter to My Keypals

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students login to a remote computer and set up a folder to save messages from their teacher. They write an introductory letter about themselves and mail it to keypals.
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Yom Kippur (Sefer Yonah) -1

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine and analyze the text of Sefer Yonah in order to fully explain one of its messages and why the text is read on Yom Kippur.
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Get the Word Out!

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students think about problems facing their community and about how to raise public consciousness. They also think about the importance and effectiveness of various forms of media in getting a message out to the public.
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E-Mail Pen Pals

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students write an e-mail message about what they have been doing in their physical education class. They break in to groups of 3 or 4 students and use the teacher's e-mail account to send an e-mail to their Pen Pal. They then read posted...
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A Little Reminder to Take With You

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers use information already gathered on a specific public health issue to create a public service message in the form of a bookmark. They consult multiple sources to compile sufficient information to create the public service...
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Campaign Songs as Propaganda

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Student analyze campaign messages about tariffs in a nineteenth-century campaign song. They identify the intended audience of the message. They discuss strategies for courting the other political party's bloc.
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Grilling Algebra

For Teachers 7th - 11th
Students use a grille to investigate geometry. The application of the geometric figure, which is square, the students begin the coding of a message. The use of cryptography is used to reinforce algebraic ideas.
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Invisible Ink - Demonstration

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Learners observe a demonstration that shows that the indicator, phenolphthalein, is a chemical that displays different colors depending on either the acidity or the basicity of the environment. They use the substance to reveal secret...
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Mail Bonding

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore different forms of communication via the Internet and the effects these electronic mediums have on social relationships. They compose e-mail messages and predict the gender of authors of anonymous e-mail messages of...
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The Dot and Dashy Language

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students examine and discuss the Morse Code. In small groups they develop messages using Morse code and take turns decipering the messages.

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