Workshop | Decoding the Airwaves

Year Level: 7 - 10
Duration: 90 mins
Maximum number of students: 30 per session
Price: $330 + gst

Lesson Summary

Dive into the fascinating world of radio waves and communication! In this lesson, students will discover how radio communication works and how it powers the technology we use every day, from the basics of radio waves and how they enable wireless broadcasting, to using encryption and ciphers to protect our messages from eavesdroppers. Students will learn how to send and receive messages using Micro:bit and limit frequencies using code so that only trusted devices can see them.
This workshop is suitable for students with all levels of coding experience.

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Objectives

• Students will learn the basic principles of radio waves and wireless broadcasting
• Students will understand how encryption and ciphers are used to protect messages in transit
• Students will develop Block or Python based code to manipulate Micro:bit sensors and emitters
• Students will demonstrate how to send and receive messages via radio using Micro:bit

Curriculum Alignment

This lesson is linked to the following Victorian Curriculum 2.0 content descriptors:

Year 7/8, Digital Technologies
• VC2TDI8S02: investigate how data is transmitted and secured in wired and wireless networks including the internet
• VC2TDI8C04: implement, modify and debug programs involving control structures and functions in a general-purpose programming language

Year 9/10, Digital Technologies
• VC2TDI10S01: investigate how hardware and software manage, control and secure access to data in networked digital systems
• VC2TDI10C04: implement, modify and debug modular programs, applying selected algorithms and data structures, including in an object-oriented programming language