ACARA 5-6 Digital Technologies: Numbers for colours, pictures and text
Students use whole numbers as colour codes, build pixel art with spreadsheet formatting rules, and see how letters are stored as number codes and as patterns of 0s and 1s.
One content description (AC9TDI6K03, AC9TDI6K04) from the full ACARA Digital Technologies Years 5–6 — Representing Data with Numbers journey. All 16 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.
Modules (16)
1
A colour key: whole numbers stand for colours
2
Encoding a picture with a colour key
3
Decoding a colour-by-number grid
4
Spreadsheet rows, columns and cells
5
Cell references like A1
6
Entering data into cells
7
Filling a cell with colour by hand
8
Making spreadsheet cells square
9
Keyboard shortcuts: copy, paste and undo
10
Colouring cells by their number with a conditional formatting rule
11
Adding more rules for more colours
12
A black-and-white picture from 0s and 1s in a spreadsheet
13
Making pixel art with whole numbers in a spreadsheet
14
Representing text with number codes
15
Encoding and decoding a word with a letter-number code
16
A letter as a pattern of 0s and 1s
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