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Formulae

For Students 9th - 12th
In this secondary mathematics activity, high schoolers participate in five activities such as code breaking, color coding, and one and even games.  The nine page activity contains eight activities.  Solutions are included. 
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Code.org

Sending Numbers

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Binary graphing ... bit by bit. Pairs work together to develop a protocol in order to send the points of a graph. One partner sends the points and the other receives them and tries to recreate the graph. The pupils use the rubric to...
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University of North Carolina

Understanding Assignments

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
"What do we have to do again?" Chances are you hear this question all the time. Here's a handout that offers scholars tips on how to understand college writing assignments. Class members learn strategies to help them decode assignments...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sentence Structure of Technical Writing

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
Most teachers and scholars look for a way to simplify information. Informational how-to slides simplify the process of technical writing into a step-by-step process. Learners gather information on what to do, as well as what to avoid....
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Curated OER

Physical vs. Chemical Changes and "The Code"

For Students 9th - 12th
In this chemical and physical change worksheet, students read about the differences between substances going through physical changes vs. chemical changes. They are given examples of each and evidence to look for in chemical changes....
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Organizer
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Breaking News English - Gap Inc. Launches Sweatshop Enquiry

For Students 9th - 11th
In this ESL/ELL lesson, students read or listen to an article entitled, "Gap Inc. Launches Sweatshop Enquiry." They complete a variety of reading and discussion activities based on the article. They discuss clothing, childhood, and...
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Curated OER

Breaking News English - No Hip-hop Fashion for Basketball Players

For Students 9th - 10th
In this ESL/ELL reading comprehension worksheet, students read or listen to an article entitled, "No Hip-hop Fashion for Basketball Players." They participate in both pre-reading and post-reading activities which include fill-in the...
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Lesson Plan
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Supercomputer Breaks Its Own Record

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students tour the inside of a computer, and then step back in time to meet some of the people who contributed to computing technology's development. They write about the specific innovations they found to be the most interesting.
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Curated OER

Breaking the Code: Actions and Songs of Protest

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students listen to and discuss the purpose of protest music. They analyze an editorial cartoon related to Jim Crow and read questions from the literacy tests given to African-Americans. They work together to write a song about the...
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Unit Plan
Bowland

Alien Invasion

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Win the war of the worlds! Scholars solve a variety of problems related to an alien invasion. They determine where spaceships have landed on a coordinate map, devise a plan to avoid the aliens, observe the aliens, and break a code to...
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101 Questions

Safe Cracking

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
How long would it take to break into a safe by testing every possible combination of codes? Pupils view a video clip of this happening and must determine the total amount of time before success. They measure how long each step takes, add...
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Winter Olympics Decoding

For Students 4th - 6th
In this Winter Olympics learning exercise, students complete a decoding puzzles with the help of a word box at the bottom of the page. All words written "in code" are related to the Winter Olympics.
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Bowland

German or English?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Sprechen sie Deutsch? Future cryptographers must decide whether an unknown text is written in English or in German. They use provided pie charts about the frequency of words in the English and German languages to help make their decisions.
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Code.org

The Need for Encryption

For Students 9th - 12th
Scholars investigate the need for encryption as they read a portion of the book Blown to Bits and discuss encryption techniques. They finish by attempting to decode a message written using a Caesar cipher.
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Public Keys, One Way Functions and Hard Problems

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
Use paint to teach about cryptography. Scholars explore public key cryptography by attempting to mix a secret color using paint. After the activity, they investigate the Diffie-Hellman method using prime numbers, exponents, and modular...
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Add It Up In Number Ville! Adding 2-Digit Numbers With and Without Regrouping

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore adding 2-digit numbers. For this math lesson, students identify 2-digit numbers and use base ten blocks to practice adding. Students use addition to break a code.
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Playbooks

Reader's Theater Exercise: The Night Before Christmas

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Yes, Virginia, there really is a reader's theater script for "The Night Before Christmas." The exercise is a great way to productively channel pre-holiday energy.
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Spelling 4

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this spelling activity worksheet, students break the letter code and spell the words on the lines. Students answer 2 questions about the spelling words.
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Ehhh! Can you repeat that!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students assess how to recognize phonemes that stand for letters creating spoken words utilizing the short vowel /e/. They associate our written language as a secret code to solve. The tongue twister "Everybody saw Eddie and the Eskimo...
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Curated OER

Being a Pedestrian

For Teachers K - 4th
Young scholars study the Green Cross Code. They determine that there are specific traffic rules for pedestrians, just as there are for other road users. They think about the rules they would need to follow to obtain a 'pedestrian's...
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Curated OER

Outline It!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate how outlining can aid in comprehending text. In this reading comprehension lesson, 4th graders outline an article they read in groups of two. Students take turns reading the article, identifying the main idea,...
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Food Chains

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners describe food cahins and the role of organisms. Using a set of organism cards, they color code the organisms on their cards by their role in the food chain. Once a complete chain is identified, they glue it on a sheet of paper.
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Electrical Circuits

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders make an electrical switch. In this electricity activity, 6th graders will make an electrical switch, a series circuit, and a parallel circuit. They explain an open and closed circuit and give examples of  series and...
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PPT
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Genetics and Genetic engineering

For Teachers 11th - 12th
The details and definitions of Biotechnology and genetic engineering are very useful, but this is a very long PowerPoint with no images or ways of breaking up the information. The slides are nicely composed and relevant, so this could be...

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