Cultural Expeditions

Writing Secret Codes

Meet the famous Navajo Code Talkers who helped out the US forces during World War II. Or use their Dictionary to create a code of your own.

Early indigenous cultures had their own ways of communicating. They used pictures to tell their stories.

For instance check out these pages on:

Egyptian Hieroglyphics from Nova
Easy lessons on reading Hieroglyphs

It's your turn to create a story in pictures. Just use a paint program to create a picture and store it in a folder on your computer. Then go to our message center, look for the "Secret Code" thread at the Message Center which will give you directions on to upload your picture.

Or you can use the pictures provided below:

to create a story in our Message Center.

Take time to look at the messages from other crewmembers and try to interpret their messages.

Try other activities at this Research Station:

Cultural Tales
Artifact Collection
Voting Booth - Rights & Responsibilities Poll