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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Rotary Encoders & Human Computer Interaction

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about rotary encoders and discover how they operate through hands-on experimentation. Rotary encoders are applied in tools to determine angle measurements and for translations of angular motion. One common rotary encoder...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Ding! Going Up? Elevators and Engineering

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students create model elevator carriages and calibrate them, similar to the work of design and quality control engineers. Students use measurements from rotary encoders to recreate the task of calibrating elevators for a high-rise...
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Other

Unicode Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th
The complete guide to the computer character encoding scheme known as Unicode. The site includes a description of Unicode, the development history of Unicode, and links to all of the Unicode character charts.
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Google

Google for Education: Ciphering a Sentence

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
In this lesson, the students have a goal to map each alphabet letter to a number in the range 1-26. They use some simple rules to create this mapping and then use this mapping to encode a sentence.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Encoding Information: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand that information can be encoded in multiple ways during communication. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Encoding Information."
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Other

Tel Aviv University: Mime

For Students 9th - 10th
This technical article explains MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions). MIME is a specification for enhancing the capabilities of standard Internet electronic mail. It offers a simple standardized way to represent and encode a wide...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Coded Messages

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson uses matrices (inverse and multiplication) to decode messages hidden within digital pictures -- a process known as steganography. This method of hidden communication is known to...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Breaking the Code

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduced students to simple coding techniques (namely, the shift cipher). Students learn to translate codes from nonsense to English by quantifying each letter, and then...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Simple Image Compression

For Students 9th - 10th
Lossless single image compression by using the algorithm run-length encoding (RLE).
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Ascii

For Students 9th - 10th
A thorough Wikipedia description of the computer character encoding scheme known as ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange).
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Unicode

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete Wikipedia description of the computer character encoding scheme known as Unicode.
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Braingle

Braingle: Cryptography Brain Teasers

For Students 9th - 10th
Test your critical thinking skills with a variety of cryptography brain teasers, phrases or expressions "encoded in some way." Solve the teasers provided at this site, and submit your own for others to try!
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Other

Video Over the Internet

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth document on video and the Internet. Including video & Internet-the problem, solutions & technologies in use, video encoding & decoding.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Secrets of the X Chromosome

For Students 9th - 10th
The sequence of DNA that we inherit from our parents encodes directions for making our cells and giving us specific traits. Robin Ball explains how the secret lies in X chromosome inactivation.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 4.nf How Many Tenths and Hundredths?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Finish the equations to make true statements. The student must really think to encode the quantity in positional notation. Aligns with 4.NF.C.5.
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Code.org

Code.org: Cs Fundamentals: Happy Maps

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The bridge from algorithms to programming can be a short one if students understand the difference between planning out a sequence and encoding that sequence into the appropriate language. This activity will help students gain experience...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: How Hard Can It Be?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson introduces students to one way of defining the strength of an encryption (called "Entropy"). In the lesson, students learn how to calculate the entropy of a given code, and then...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Creating Codes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit show NUMB3RS, this lesson focuses on getting students to create ciphering codes. These codes are made in two different ways in this lesson: once with addition and once with multiplication. Students in this lesson are...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of American History: Information Age

For Students 9th - 10th
This exhibition surveys the history of information technology and its relation to society from the origin of the telegraph to the present. Its emphasis is as much on social as technical change. This support page contains background...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Human Genome

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] An introduction to the human genome and the Human Genome Project.
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Other

Nat'l Security Agency: National Cryptologic Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
On this site one can find the National Security Agency's history of cryptology, some online exhibits, and sections on mathematics, education, and more.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Video

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia provides a simple definition of the term, "Video," including many hyperlinked words and an external link.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Measuring Memory and Remembering: Forgetting

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will explain forgetting and describe the strategies used to avoid it.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Dna Replication

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] With this flipchart students will analyze how biological traits are passed on to successive generations.

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