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Code to Picture

Classroom Resource Information

Title:

Code to Picture

URL:

https://aptv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/buac20-35-sci-ps-codeimage/code-to-picture/

Content Source:

PBS

Type:

Interactive/Game

Overview:

Visualize the relationship between the binary code of 1s and 0s and an image with this interactive tool. Students can investigate relationships by testing how a code is used to create an image pixel by pixel and how the quality of a picture (its resolution) can be improved. A student assignment includes a brief reading to provide context on the code and an opportunity to test out a code with a partner.

Content Standard(s):

Science
SC2015 (2015)
Grade: 4

7 ) Develop and use models to show multiple solutions in which patterns are used to transfer information (e.g., using a grid of 1s and 0s representing black and white to send information about a picture, using drums to send coded information through sound waves, using Morse code to send a message).*

Unpacked Content

Scientific And Engineering Practices:

Developing and Using Models

Crosscutting Concepts: Patterns

Disciplinary Core Idea: Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer

Evidence Of Student Attainment:

Students:

Develop a model to show multiple solutions in which patterns are used to transfer information.
Use a model to show multiple solutions in which patterns are used to transfer information.

Teacher Vocabulary:

transmit
transfer
decoded
accuracy
digitized
convert
coded
signals

Knowledge:

Students know:

About digitized information transfer. (e.g., information can be converted from a sound wave into digital signals such as patterns of 1s and 0s and vice versa; visual or verbal messages can be encoded in patterns of flashes of light to be decoded by someone else across the room).
Ways that high-tech devices convert and transmit information. (e.g., cell phones convert sound waves into digital signals, so they can be transmitted long distances, and then converted back into sound waves; a picture or message can be encoded using light signals to transmit the information over a long distance).
Information can be transmitted over long distances without significant degradation. High tech devices, such as computers or cell phones, can receive and decode information - convert form to voice - and vice versa.

Skills:

Students are able to:

Generate multiple design solutions that use patterns to transmit a given piece of information.
Apply the engineering design process to develop a model to show multiple solutions to transfer information.
Describe the given criteria for the design solutions.
Describe the given constraints of the design solutions, including the distance over which information is transmitted, safety considerations, and materials available.

Understanding:

Students understand that:

Similarities and differences in the types of patterns used in the solutions to determine whether some ways of transmitting information are more effective than others and addressing the problem.

AMSTI Resources:

AMSTI Module:
Energy and Waves

Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards

AAS Standard:
SCI.AAS.4.7- Identify models that show ways in which patterns are used to transfer information (using drums to send coded information through sound waves, using Morse code to send a message).

Tags:

binary, code, computing, technology

License Type:

Custom Permission Type
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Author:

Stephanie Carver

ALEX Classroom Resource

Code to Picture