Codes Symbols Glyphs
Code-breaking games:
Or...make some ambigrams! Here are some examples: Ambigram Yesterday/Tomorrow True/False Happy Birthday
Can you make one of your name? Or of another word? Carmen will work with anyone who wants to figure these out!
Fingerspelling tutor - Using this website, practice fingerspelling the alphabet. Figure out how to say "Roeper" and your name.
Sign language-first 100 signs - Using this website and/or the sign language books, learn several different words for things you like.
Create a sign for your name combining the sign for something you like with the sign for the first letter in your name.
Teach a friend some words in sign language. Can you talk to each other? What do you notice?
March 25, 27, 31 and April 2, 4: Glyphs/ancient writing systems (Egyptian, Cuneiform, Phoenician, Greek, Roman). Rebuses, symbols, pictograms
Translate Your Name into Hieroglyphics
Cuneiform: http://www.carolineludovici.com/uploads/3/4/5/2/3452083/648394.gif?1323747129
Ancient Egyptian Dictionary part 1
Ancient Egyptian Dictionary part 2
April 15, 17: Codes (Morse, Caesar Cipher, Cipher Wheel, Scytale)
April 22, 24: Creating our own codes
April 28, 30: Braille & American Sign Language
May 2: Ambigrams
Feb. 5 - What are symbols?
Pictographic symbols
In your notebooks:
- Draw as many pictographic symbols as you can think of that you see every day.
- Share with a friend--does your friend know what these symbols mean? (Examples: symbols in public buildings, company logos, computer icons, religious or national symbols, math symbols)
- What new pictographic symbols can you create to represent things you see around you?
- Write a message using only pictograms. Share with a friend and see if they can understand your message.
Share: Pictograms vs. alphabet? What did you come up with?
Feb. 7 - What are glyphs?
The Story of How We Got Our Alphabets (BBC)
Evolution of the Roman Alphabet
Earliest glyphs came from which culture?
Research a letter using World Book Kids. Create a short report. What culture can you trace it back to? What was the original name of the letter? What did that name mean?
Ambigrams:
In your notebooks, begin sketching an ambigram for your name or another word that is important to you.
Feb 11, 13, 15 : Ancient Writing Systems
Feb 26, 28; March 4, 6, 8 : Codes, Ciphers, and Secret Messages