Content Descriptors and Elaborations
Knowledge and Understanding
- Examine how whole numbers are used to represent all data in digital systems (ACTDIK015)
* Students will understand that computer data is stored and transmitted as a series of zeroes and ones - known as binary numbers (whole)
Processes and Production Skills
- Plan, create and communicate ideas and information, including collaboratively online, applying agreed ethical , social and technical protocols (ACTDIP022)
- Design, modify and follow simple algorithms involving sequence of steps, branching, and iteration (repetition) (ACTDIP019)
* Students will create a binary code to email to a partner and vice versa. Students will then decode the message.
Differentiation
■VISUAL LEARNERS - This resource is made with the intention of using many videos, and visuals placed on the classroom walls, to cater for students who like to be able to ‘see’ what they are learning
■KINAESTHETIC LEARNERS - Students are often required to participate in activities that will have them out of their desk or using manipulatives
■MATHEMATICAL LEARNERS – coding has a very mathematical function with use of binary and whole numbers
■The written aspect of the assessment piece (Task 3) can be recorded verbally for students who find it easier to explain verbally, rather than writing
Binary Code for the Teacher
Binary Numbers - Math Bites with Danica McKellar
■This video is a little bit different but will help explain the binary system and it’s link to computers
■This is not for the students to watch but rather an information session for you, the teacher
■CSUnplugged – This website is a great resource to use to learn about Binary numbers – it includes a link to an 11 page lesson ideas and activities resource. There are also many suggested sites to visit that will help you both as a teacher, and students, to learn about binary numbers and their links to systems data