Overview

Students collaborate in an iterative design process to make a “bit sending device” using classroom supplies and everyday objects. They develop systems for encoding and sending simple binary messages over a physical distance.

Vocab

• Binary - A way of representing information using only two options.
• Bit - A contraction of "Binary Digit"; the single unit of information in a computer, typically represented as a 0 or 1

Resources

• Binary Message Devices - Activity Guide (copy as MS Word, Google Doc)

• Binary Message Devices - Rubric (copy as MS Word, Google Doc)