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Morse Code Game – Secret Message Activity

Morse code encoding is practiced through a secret-message activity where students decode a sample phrase, then write their own coded message about a classmate.
Year groups
Lower Secondary, Primary, Years 5–7
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Updated Oct 03, 2021

Subject
Spelling, Language Development, English
Topic
Secret, Message
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Write a secret message to someone using morse code!

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Learning objectives

  • Students decode a short phrase written in Morse code.

  • Students encode an original message into Morse code, following three required content elements (a compliment, a question, and a self-identifying clue).

Teaching tips

  • Pair this activity with a Morse code alphabet reference chart, since the extracted page does not show a full letter-to-symbol key.

  • Model the sample decoding practice as a class before releasing students to write their own message.

  • Have students trade encoded messages with a partner to decode as a follow-up activity.

Skills covered

  • Morse code encoding — students translate an original sentence into dots and dashes, following the activity's convention of writing punctuation directly.

  • Morse code decoding — students translate a printed dot-dash phrase back into English.

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How does this activity simplify standard Morse code convention?

Punctuation is written directly in plain text rather than converted into Morse code, and students leave a small space between each letter's symbols to keep the message readable.

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