Description

Overview:

n this lesson students work in groups using classroom supplies and everyday objects to develop their own systems for encoding and sending simple binary messages, messages that only have two possible values. Students will think about what can be usefully conveyed in such a simple message and build a “device” to communicate the message over some physical distance. Then students are asked to consider how to use their binary messaging devices to send a more complex message - a message with more than two possibilities, say four, or eight, or even thousands of different messages. Students will collaborate in an iterative design process in the “maker ethos” of rapidly building and improving their “device” for sending messages.

Subject:

Computer Science

Level:

High School

Grades:

Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12

Material Type:

Lesson Plan

Author:

Duncan deBruin

Date Added:

07/11/2019