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Description

Give some detail and show some pictures of the code breakers of Bletchley Park and the Enigma Code Breaking Machine developed by Alan Turing.

Resources

Photos Of Alan Turing's Code Breaking Computer
Photos of the workers at Bletchley Park
Crossword Which is attached (Deliberately difficult to show how hard it is to find words in mixed up letters.)

Instructions

Start by talking about the role of Alan Turing and his team who created the computer that broke the Enigma Code.
- You can talk about the size of it.
- The Fact that there was no screen or mouse.
- The Fact that you had to use plugs to set programming wheels.
- And that it was no good on its own. You had to have a team of interceptors, normally ladies who listen to the messages being sent and picked ones that they though the machine would be able to break.

Talk about the ladies who had to listen to all the german messages and translate them.

Talk about the fact that some people at Bletchley Park new that things were going to happen that they could not stop in case the germans realised that the British had broken the code.
- Convoy of ships
- Coventry
and more.

Then hand out the crossword and allow the children to try to find all the words in the remaining time including "TheSecretHiddenMessage"

thesecrethiddenmessage - is the message and goes diagonally from the bottom left upwards.

Tags

• code breaker
• code breaking
• code cracking
• crosswords
• History

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