Perfect for Veterans Day and Native American Heritage Month. Students meet the Navajo, Comanche, Choctaw, and other Native American soldiers whose languages became unbreakable codes.

What’s inside (16 pages):
Who Were the Code Talkers? From the Choctaw in 1918 to World War II, with questions.
The Navajo Code Is Born: the first 29 recruits, plus a memory challenge.
How the Code Worked: code words and the code alphabet.
Think Like a Code Talker: decide what code words stood for, then invent your own.
Crack the Code: decode a message with the full Navajo code alphabet and encode your name.
Map the Pacific Battles: seven battles on a Pacific map with a scale bar and questions.
Iwo Jima by the Numbers: six real word problems.
Keeping the Secret: 1968, Code Talkers Day, and the Congressional Gold Medal.
Code Talkers From Many Nations: Choctaw and Comanche, with a comparison chart.
Timeline Sort: cut and glue eight events from 1918 to 2008.
Check Your Understanding, teacher guide, answer key, and credits.

Why teachers love it:
Real wartime photographs in the reading pages.
Covers history, ELA, math, and geography in one pack.
Hands-on code activities students love.