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Navajo Code Talker Activity: Decode and Create Your Own Messages

This interactive lesson plan focuses on the use of the Navajo language in military code communication. Students learn how to transmit and decode messages through step-by-step instructions. They will first decode a series of Navajo transmissions based on their English meanings. Following this, students will be encouraged to create their own coded messages, enhancing their understanding of coding systems as used by the Navajo Code Talkers during WWII. This activity encourages creativity, teamwork, and appreciation for Navajo heritage.

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Navajo Code Talker Activity: Decode and Create Your Own Messages

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  1. Innovative Alphabet

  2. Activity 2 – Lesson Plan on CDCode Making • Step 1 The Code talker wants to transmit the word “tank.” He says over transmitter the Navajo word “A-woh,” which in English means “tooth.” • Step 2 The other code talker receives the message. He takes the first letter “T” from the English word “tooth” and writes it down. _T - __ - __ - __ • Step 3 The first code talker says another Navajo word and takes the first letter from the English translation to create words and sentences.

  3. Now that you have the code, decode the following Navajo transmissions. SHUSH/TSE NILL/D-AH/THAN ZIE/DIBEH-YAZZIE/AH-NAH ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ DZEH/A-CHIN/AH-NAH/BE-TAS-TNI/TSAH-AS-ZIH ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ Now create some code words of your own. Your Turn!

  4. “When the American flag was raised on top of Iwo Jima’s mountain, the victory was announced in code to the American fleet:” Sheep-Uncle-Ram-Ice-Bear-Ant-Cat-Horse-Itch Use Navajo Code Talker dictionary handout. (What was transmitted?)

  5. Answer: S-U-R-I-B-A-C-H-I The name of the mountain on Iwo Jima (description on pg. 96-99)

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