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• Students learn about pixels in this Moveable Museum unit, in which they decode a simple digital image from a string of numbers. The eight-page PDF guide includes:

  • Educator materials—general background readings, activity notes, step-by-step directions, and activity handouts.
  • Grades K-3 Version: Decoding a Picture from Space procedure—students decode an image from a coded grid in which each pixel has already been assigned a number.
  • Grades 4-8 Version: Transmitting an Image from Space procedure—students fill in the numbers for the coded grid after receiving data from a student representing the Hubble Space Telescope.

• Topic

  Astronomy

• Subtopic

  Tools and Methods

• Subtopic

  National Science Education Standards
  Grades K-4:
  Science as Inquiry CONTENT STANDARD A: 

  • abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry• understanding about scientific inquiry

  Physical Science CONTENT STANDARD B: 

  • light, heat, electricity, and magnetism

  Science and Technology CONTENT STANDARD E: 

  • understanding about science and technology

  Science in Personal and Social Perspectives CONTENT STANDARD F: 

  • science and technology in local challenges

  History and Nature of Science CONTENT STANDARD G: 

  • science as a human endeavor

  Grades 5-8:
  Science as Inquiry CONTENT STANDARD A: 

  • understanding about scientific inquiry

  Science and Technology CONTENT STANDARD E: 

  • understandings about science and technology

  Science in Personal and Social Perspectives CONTENT STANDARD F: 

  • science and technology in society

  History and Nature of Science CONTENT STANDARD G: 

  • science as a human endeavor• nature of science

• Learning Standard

  National Science Education Standards
  Grades K-4:
  Science as Inquiry CONTENT STANDARD A: 

  • abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry• understanding about scientific inquiry

  Physical Science CONTENT STANDARD B: 

  • light, heat, electricity, and magnetism

  Science and Technology CONTENT STANDARD E: 

  • understanding about science and technology

  Science in Personal and Social Perspectives CONTENT STANDARD F: 

  • science and technology in local challenges

  History and Nature of Science CONTENT STANDARD G: 

  • science as a human endeavor

  Grades 5-8:
  Science as Inquiry CONTENT STANDARD A: 

  • understanding about scientific inquiry

  Science and Technology CONTENT STANDARD E: 

  • understandings about science and technology

  Science in Personal and Social Perspectives CONTENT STANDARD F: 

  • science and technology in society

  History and Nature of Science CONTENT STANDARD G: 

  • science as a human endeavor• nature of science