Digital Fortress Activities & Classroom Projects

Fun Classroom Activities

The 20 enjoyable, interactive classroom activities that are included will help your students understand the text in amusing ways. Fun Classroom Activities include group projects, games, critical thinking activities, brainstorming sessions, writing poems, drawing or sketching, and more that will allow your students to interact with each other, be creative, and ultimately grasp key concepts from the text by "doing" rather than simply studying.

1. Cryptograms

Cryptograms are often in the newspaper or in puzzle books. Give one to the students and have them try to decrypt it.

2. Debate

Divide the students into two groups and have a debate about the right to email privacy.

3. Onhand Computer Exercise

Have the students try encryption on a computer and see the results.

4. Hands on Computer Exercise

Have the students search the Internet for an anonymous server. What information is provided?

5. NSA

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