Digital Technologies / Year 5 and 6 / Knowledge and understanding / Data representation

Curriculum content descriptions

explore how data can be represented by off and on states (zeros and ones in binary) (AC9TDI6K04)

Elaborations
  • making collaboratively a long thread with beads representing binary for the letters that spell the Country/Place name in the local First Nations language and English, and could be displayed as a ‘binary banner’ as an Acknowledgement of Country that we are on the Traditional Lands of the Peoples
  • demonstrating that an on/off state in a circuit can represent the digits one and zero, and this is how digital systems represent data
  • recognising how the answer to a yes/no question can be represented using on/off states, for example switching a light on or off in a circuit or a long or short dash (beep) in Morse code
General capabilities
ScOT terms

Data representation,  Binary numeral system

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