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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Word Steps

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Blending basic CVC letters to make words is one of the first steps to independent reading. Provided here are several images of stairs and several letters to cut and arrange. The learner rearranges the letters to form CVC patterns, sounds...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Encoding and Decoding, A Digraph A Word

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Learners view a series of images, then choose digraphs, consonants, and vowels to spell out the object's name on each card.
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Encoding and Decoding, Make-A-Word

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Little learners place a picture card on a magnetic board, say the name of the object on the card, then sift through alphabet magnets to find and spell the word they said.
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Encoding and Decoding, Letter Cube Blending

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Emergent readers use a letter cube to identify, blend, and make words. They roll each of the three-letter cubes, mark down the letters they rolled, then blend the letter sounds together to make a word. They record each word on a...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Encoding and Decoding, Digraph Delight

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
There are three spinners to use in this phonic activity. Spinner one contains digraphs, spinner two contains vowels, and spinner three contains consonants. Learners spin each spinner, write down the letters they get, blend them to make a...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Encoding and Decoding, Three-In-One

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Scholars use the provided pack of alphabet cards to construct basic CVC words, then write down each word they make in one of two columns. Column one is for real words and column two is for nonsense words.
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Phonics: Encoding and Decoding, Vowel Stars

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Learners are given a star; each star contains a c_c form in the center and vowels on each point. They use the vowels to fill in the blank between the consonants making a simple CVC word. They write each word they make on a piece of paper. 
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Caesar Ciphers: An Introduction to Cryptography

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers encode and decode messages using a Caesar Cipher. In this encoding and decoding messages using a Caesar Cipher lesson, students discuss cryptography and how it is used. High schoolers make a Caesar wheel to encode and...
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Lesson Plan
Google

Google for Education: Ciphering a Sentence

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
In this lesson, the students have a goal to map each alphabet letter to a number in the range 1-26. They use some simple rules to create this mapping and then use this mapping to encode a sentence.
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Activity
Other

Nat'l Security Agency: National Cryptologic Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
On this site one can find the National Security Agency's history of cryptology, some online exhibits, and sections on mathematics, education, and more.
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Interactive
Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Caesar Cipher

For Students 9th - 10th
Create your own affine cipher for encoding and decoding messages. Input your own constant and multiplier, then input a message to encode.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Dna Replication

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] With this flipchart students will analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations.
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Activity
Braingle

Braingle: Cryptography Brain Teasers

For Students 9th - 10th
Test your critical thinking skills with a variety of cryptography brain teasers, phrases or expressions "encoded in some way." Solve the teasers provided at this site, and submit your own for others to try!
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Graphic
Curated OER

Behind the Scenes

For Students 9th - 10th
Here are stories of Military Intelligence as told by those who were in Harms Way", "In The Field", and "Behind the Scenes.