Showing posts with label [English Camp][2026Summer]Enigma. Show all posts
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Wednesday, July 8, 2026

From Snack Tubes to Ciphers: Teaching WWII Cryptography in a Second Language

 




6月時觀到了一堂很棒的輔導員夥伴公開課,當下對於閔嵐老師將全英的講述和洋芋片密碼機的製作結合的如此之好留下非常深刻的印象,所以立刻決定在自己學校的暑假資優營也來使用這個有趣的活動。可是,當自己實際要備課的時候才發現困難重重,因為理解背後運作的原理及如何轉化成易懂、可理解的英語就已經有挑戰性,加上如何使用一個又一個的activity/task讓學生在整整一個上午都能專注、不無聊,更是花了最多時間在準備這次的上課。

Picture this: a teenager is staring intently at an empty Pringles can, a pair of scissors, and a sheet of scrambled letters. They aren't just doing a summer camp craft; they are wrestling with World War II cryptography—and they are doing it entirely in their second language.

Recently, after observing a brilliant lesson by a fellow EAT member, I traded in our usual ESL activities (like brewing bubble milk tea or extracting banana DNA) for something with significantly more friction. We built simulated Enigma machines out of snack containers.