Curated OER
Personal Telephone Numbers: Deciphering a Message
In this deciphering a message worksheet, students decipher 23 names of famous people given a phone number. Students use the numbers and letters on a telephone key pad to decipher phone numbers into names.
Curated OER
Listen to a Radio Show
Students practice the art of listening. In this listening skills lesson, students listen to an old-time radio show and identify hidden messages, innuendo, sarcasm, double entendres, puns, hyperbole, irony, colloquialisms, inflections,...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Coded Messages
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson uses matrices (inverse and multiplication) to decode messages hidden within digital pictures -- a process known as steganography. This method of hidden communication is known to...
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...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Word Girl: "Word Girl Cryptogram Puzzle 1" [Pdf]
Print this Cryptogram puzzle, fill in the numbers for the alphabet, and solve the hidden message.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Puzzlemaker
At this site create your own puzzles, build your own maze and print them out for yourself or others to enjoy.
Other
Squigly's Games: Squigly's Word Star
In this interactive game, students select a category and then play a hangman-style game by trying to spell out a word related to the category before they run out of stars.