Elicit non-trivial dialogue from students. Guide students to reflection and analysis of the experience. Encourage students to share their perceptions and beliefs. Summarize and review similarities and differences.

Examine the hieroglyphic messages

Objective: Examine the symbols used in the treasure hunt and how they were used.

Activity: Students open their treasure box which contains the fortune cookies with the hieroglyphic messages inside. Students open the cookie. Then they decode the fortune. Let the students see if they can discover the system used to write the message. After sufficient time has elapsed for discovery and they haven’t broken the code, give them the key and let them decode it using the key. Decoding can be done individually or in groups. After the fortunes have been decoded, let the students eat the fortune cookies as a reward for a job well done.

Assessment: Students successfully decode the message contained in the fortune cookie