A Binary Code activity and worksheet for CS0 students. Part of the CUNY CS04All project.

Students wire up their own digital trumpets using a MaKey MaKey. They learn the basics of wiring a breadboard and use the digital trumpets to count in the binary number system. Teams are challenged to play songs using the binary system and their trumpets, and then present them in a class concert.

Students learn about magnets and how they are formed. They investigate the properties of magnets and how engineers use magnets in technology. Specifically, students learn about magnetic memory storage, which is the reading and writing of data information using magnets, such as in computer hard drives, zip disks and flash drives.

In this lesson, students will define a number system and explain it's function.   They will also explain the Decimal Number System and perform decimal to binary conversions and binary to decimal conversions.