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Newseum

Civil War: Encoding the News

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Young journalists learn to appreciate the advantages of how modern media technology enables rapid news delivery as they compare today's media revolution to how the telegraph and Morse Code revolutionized news coverage during the Civil...
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Curated OER

Math: Number Systems

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Pupils examine other number systems, particularly the binary number system. They discover how to convert from decimal to other base systems. Students analyze the advantages and disadvantages of using the coded decimals.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Look at me!

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Third graders write an autobiography and use pictures of themselves from past and present to illustrate it. They take pictures with a digital camera, scan pictures, and add them to a document.
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Curated OER

Zeros and Ones

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students review counting, the number system and the decimal number system. They rotate through three stations, "How RAM Works, "Binary Numbers" and "Binary Letters." They complete three separate worksheets to check for complete...
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Curated OER

DNA Chips

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discover what they need to know about DNA chips. They extend this knowledge to analyze gene expression data to diagnose two kinds of leukemia.
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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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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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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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Scientific American

Scientific American: What's a Dvd and How Does It Work?

For Students 9th - 10th
This "Ask the Expert" article answers the question "What's a DVD and how does it work?" clearly and thoroughly. Compares the DVD to other data storage units, and to itself! Did you know there are more types of DVDs other than what you...
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Other

Webopedia: Tape

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource offers several paragraphs of information on tapes, which are magnetically coated strips of plastic on which data can be encoded.
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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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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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Other

University of Edinburgh: Glossary of Introductory Computer Graphics Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
This website, from the University of Edinburgh, provides a lengthy glossary of computer graphics terms written by Olin Lathrop, author of "The Way Computer Graphics Work". This site provides simple definitions of basic terms; no graphics...
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Other

Pc Guide: Compact Disk Media

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the PC Guide provides informative information about compact disk media, with links to construction and manufacture, data encoding and decoding, CD capacity, and formats.
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Pc Guide: Recordable Cd (Cd R)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the PC Guide provides information about CD-R media, including a link to encoding. The information that is provided is brief but factual, and worth checking out on the subject with links to additional information.
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Pc Guide: Rewriteable Cd (Cd Rw)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from PC Guide provides information about rewriteable CD (CD-RW) media, including a link to encoding information. The information is very brief but factual, and worth checking out on the subject.
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Other

Unicode and Multilingual Support in Html, Fonts, Web Browsers

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the importance of using Unicode and how it can be used in different software applications and contexts.

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