An Eye on Optics
Students explore the relationship between gelatin shapes and light and design a lens system to improve vision.
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Public Keys, One Way Functions and Hard Problems
This lesson introduces two important concepts: public key encryption and one-way functions.
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11 - 14CATEGORIES:
Computing, Mathematical Applications, Technology
Virtual Reality and Anaglyph Stereoscopic Technology
Students will use the scientific method to study ‘anaglyph’ (movie 3D) technologies to model computer science design and learn how stereo images create the illusion of 3D.
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11 - 14CATEGORIES:
Computing, Mathematical Applications, Technology
Smart Buildings and the Internet of Things
This lesson explores the practical, scientific, ethical, and environmental issues that emerge in building ‘smart buildings’ that rely on ‘the internet of things’.
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11 - 17CATEGORIES:
Buildings and Structures, Computing, Engineering Design, Environments and Resources, Technology
Binary Basics
The lesson begins by asking how a Stone Age man managed to go home to his cave and tell his family he had caught 11 fish when he only has 10 fingers?
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Lesson Plan PDFAGE LEVELS:
9 - 12CATEGORIES:
Computing, Mathematical Applications, Technology
Sorting Socks is Algorithm Complexity
This lesson introduces some simple ideas about algorithms and their complexity through a series of exercises involving a collection of socks.
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Lesson Plan PDFAGE LEVELS:
11 - 13CATEGORIES:
Computing, Mathematical Applications, Technology
Animation with Object Efficiency
This lesson shows how an object made of connected parts can be animated by displaying it as a series of graphic images.
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Data Representation: Millions of Colors
By first creating, and then playing a card game, students learn how additive color is represented as binary and hexadecimal numbers.
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Lesson Plan PDFAGE LEVELS:
14 - 17CATEGORIES:
Computing, Mathematical Applications, Technology
Coloring Discrete Structures
This lesson introduces students to areas of mathematics that computer scientists use to do computational problems.
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Lesson Plan PDFAGE LEVELS:
11 - 13CATEGORIES:
Computing, Mathematical Applications, Technology
Vector Graphics Use Functions
This lesson introduces vector graphics and functions through a collaborative design activity.
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