Gaia's Buddies in code

1st Experimental Primary School of Pyrgos

Open in-person activity

sophiakouz@yahoo.com

English

271 31, GRC

(i) Crack the code and see the hidden Gaia’s Buddy.

In pairs Ss convert the binary into bitmaps. They use white to represent 0 and black to represent 1

(ii) Who can Gaia’s Buddies be? Make your own images and codes

Ss make a picture and convert the bitmaps into binary, using a “0” to represent a white pixel and a “1” to represent a black pixel.

(iii) Upload your codes on the http://linoit.com/users/SophiaK-40/canvases/Gaia%27s%20Buddies%20crack%20the%20code and the images other students are expected to decode.

WRAP-UP :

(a) Students report back to class. They discuss about binary code and how to convert an encoded image into a drawn pixel image, how to design and encode a new one

(b) Students answer a menti for the activity https://www.menti.com/57gspdhma5

POSSIBLE FOLLOW-UP

Ss can make their own collaborative comics with their own Gaia’s

Buddies that help the environment in various ways

(https://www.pixton.com/   or https://www.storyboardthat.com/comic-maker)

Ss can extend the encoding for color images

 Worksheet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ILtcf076TfRhhfD-Nk6QIJa-7nbRMyiO/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=105592288599994664892&rtpof=true&sd=true

Lesson Plan: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mE1Yv6gmLuiGgq8OoJQVR5tDzk8kcvc4/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=105592288599994664892&rtpof=true&sd=true

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