Curated OER
Break the Code: Anthropology Terms
Spice up your study of basic anthropology terms using this decoding learning exercise. Using a provided code, learners answer 10 fill-in-the-blank questions. Because the code is very simple, more advanced pupils may enjoy the challenge...
Curated OER
Integer Computation
In this integer computation activity, 5th graders solve and complete 14 different problems that include solving various types of integers. First, they use the code in the columns to solve the 3 puzzles at the bottom of the sheet....
Curated OER
DNA Code
Students synthesize information gathered from the web on reading the DNA code. In this upper-level biology lesson, students use an online resource to gain information about DNA codes and then create posters on what they have learned....
Curated OER
The Rotating Grille
Students experience the geometric method of coding by actual construction and use of a rotating grille. Students use rotations and reflections to code and decode messages. Students explore nomenclature and symmetry.
Curated OER
COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
Students review their understanding of web design principles and HTML and continue working on academic projects.
Curated OER
Code Fun
For this code worksheet, students use the code key at the bottom of the page to decipher a message. The code key features lines in different configurations.
Curated OER
Squigly's Secret Code
In this literacy instructional activity, students work to unscramble the secret code. The code is written in symbols that are similar to pictographs.
Education World
Live Together Code
In this health instructional activity, learners focus upon the aspect of living in positive social relationships while deciphering a code to reveal a message.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Construction and Building Inspector
This site explains what construction and building inspector's jobs entail. Learn about such topics as working conditions, employment, pay scale, training, job outlook, and related jobs.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Want to Make a Video Game? Here's How!
Do you love playing video and computer games? Do you dream of someday creating your own? With this science fair project you can turn that "someday" wish into a "today" reality.
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.
PBS
Pbs Nova: Decipher a Coded Message
The basic difference between a code and cipher is explained briefly. You can try to crack a simple cipher at this location.
PBS
Nova: Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies
The companion site to the show by the same title. Interesting site allows the reader to decipher a coded message. Information on Venona Intercepts and interviews with children of famous spies.
Other
Codecademy
Codecademy is a creation designed to educate users in writing code, using JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Python, and other programs. Review tutorials, create web designs, interactives, and apps, and collaborate or share with the Codecademy...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Python Script Analysis
Working in small groups, students complete and run functioning Python codes.This requires students to understand the logic employed, and then they must make modifications to the code in order to find the slopes of tangents to a variety...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Putting It All Together: Peripheral Vision
In this culminating activity of the unit, students bring together everything they've learned in order to write the code to solve the Grand Challenge. The code solution takes two images captured by robots and combines them to create an...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Does It Work? Test and Test Again
Testing is critical to any design, whether it be in the creation of new software or building a bridge across a wide river. Despite risking the quality of the design, the testing stage is often hurried in order to get products to market....
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Python Calculus
Learners analyze a cartoon of a Rube Goldberg machine and a Python programming language script to practice engineering analysis. This exercise enables students to see the parallels between a more traditional mechanical engineering design...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Journey Into Dna
Travel deep into the human body to see exactly where your DNA resides. From the NOVA: Cracking the Code of Life Web site.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Computer Programming: House Class Demo
A class demo to help students visualize and learn how to program drawings using JavaScript.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Medical Records and Health Information Tech
Career trends and employment projections are detailed in this Department of Labor site. General information on the Medical Records and Health Information Technician profession is also provided.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: How Hard Can It Be?
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to one way of defining the strength of an encryption (called "Entropy"). In the lesson, students learn how to calculate the entropy of a given code, and then...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Breaking the Code
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduced students to simple coding techniques (namely, the shift cipher). Students learn to translate codes from nonsense to English by quantifying each letter, and then...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Now You See It, Now You Don't
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson is an introduction to a "different" type of coding, called steganography. In Steganography, images (or text) are split into layers, and then distorted in such a way so as to...