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Rosetta Stones
Materials:
- Writing supplies
The Rosetta stone enabled eighteenth-century scholars to decipher the hieroglyphics' of ancient Egypt by providing "parallel" passages in Greek and Egyptian. You can invent your own Rosetta stones right in your living room, and you won't even need a hammer and chisel.
Take a piece of paper and list all the letters of the alphabet in a column. Next to each letter, place a different geometrical shape, arrow, simple picture, or other visual substitute.
Now write out a message using the "graphic alphabet," hand your child the translation sheet, and see if he or she can read the correct words.
And for a hotshot code buster, try this: Leave about three quarters of the letters as they are but substitute graphics and symbols for the rest. Write out a message in the "hybrid" alphabet and see if your child can crack the code without a translation sheet.
S*! %L?*S? *:^ @*:K !0*
(Which means: Enjoy this activity!)
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© 2005 by Steve and Ruth Bennett. Excerpted from 365 Unplugged Family Fun Activities with permission of its publisher, Perseus Books Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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