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Activities
Coding
Lina had a difficult time trying to decode the torn document.
Can you decipher the message?
Lina's Message Full of Holes
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Solve these puzzles.
Use the websites below to try your hand at decoding.
Interactive Word Games
These tools help solve popular word puzzles.
http://www.wordplays.com/
Codes for Cubs and Scouts
This collection is ordered from "Beginner" codes, which Cubs can easily handle,
then "Substitution" codes which are easy codes for Scouts, and then a few
tougher puzzles...
http://www.scouting.org.za/codes/
Decoding Nazi Secrets
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/decoding/
Morse Code Translator
http://www.scphillips.com/morse/
Send a Secret Message
http://www.thunk.com/
Cryptograms
http://www.puzz.com/cryptograms.html
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Activity - Canned Fruits
Read this excerpt from Chapter 7 - page 101.
"Every room had
something different," Granny told Lina. "Boxes of toothpaste in one room.
Bottles of cooking oil. Bars of soap. Boxes of pills - there were twenty rooms
just for vitamin pills. One room was stacked with hundreds of cans of fruit.
There was something called pineapple, I remember that one especially."
"What was pineapple?"
asked Lina.
"It was yellow and
sweet," said Granny with a dreamy look in her eyes. "I had it four times before
we ran out of it."
Have students discuss their favorite canned
fruits. Imagine not having fruit. Have students tally the class's favorite
canned fruits and make a bar graph with their findings.
Make this wonderful dessert with canned fruits.
Recipe
Layer the bottom of a 9 by 13 inch baking dish
with cream filled snack cakes. Slice the cakes in half lengthwise before placing
them in the bottom on the baking dish. Add a layer of fruit on top of the snack
cakes. Use the class's favorite fruits. (Pineapple is especially good.) Drain
the fruit well before pouring it onto the cake. Top the fruit with a layer of
vanilla pudding. Next add a layer of whipped topping. The dessert is better
after it has chilled for several hours.
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