Stage 1 Digital Technologies: A Secret Code unit

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This unit focuses on digital systems and their components. Students investigate how digital systems display data and use a sequence of steps and decisions (algorithm) to solve problems. This unit helps develop students’ understanding of how digital systems use algorithms to communicate.

Key Inquiry Questions:
  1. What components might make up a digital system?
  2. What is data and how can we store and represent it?
  3. How can we record instructions for others to follow and understand?

This unit of work covers NSW Science & Technology outcomes:
ST1-2DP-T Design & Production
Uses materials, tools and equipment to develop solutions for a need or opportunity
ST1-3DP-T Design & Production
describes , follows and represents algorithms to solve problems
ST1-11DI-T Digital Technologies
gathers and organises data, displays data in lists, tables and picture graphs, and interprets the results
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