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Digi-Waves

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COMBINED RATING

3.5 Stars

TEACHERS (3)

3.7

STUDENTS (376)

3.2

LENGTH

20 Minutes

GRADES

CAPABILITIES

Spanish Language Support

Text-to-Speech Support

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Description

It’s Friday and it’s almost time for Robot 2001 to have a few days off. However, they need to run the communications facility for the day before they can. Robot 2001 has never been put in charge before. They must travel around the space station, solve puzzles, and answer any messages they receive throughout the day, using digital or analog methods. Digi-Waves is a 3D, third-person, point-and-click adventure. Where, over 5 stages, players are tasked with taking a robot in charge of a communication station through various tasks, all designed to help players understand digital and analog signals. Through the game, we explore multiple forms of signals, including binary, Morse code, audio, and encoded text

Vocabulary Words

digital signals

analog signals

discrete values

data

Morse Code

degradation

encode

decode

binary

Instructions

Play through this interactive game to learn about Digital Signals. Suitable for Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8.

Main Concepts

Some communication involves the use of digital signals.

Technologies make it possible to receive and decode digitized information.

Information can be stored on various types of devices.

Analog signals vary continuously.

Modern technologies use digitized signals as a reliable way to encode and transmit information.

Digital signals are either on or off.

Digital information can be stored without significant degradation, as opposed to analog information.

Some communication involves the use of analog signals.

Digital signals can be sent as wave pulses, such as pulses of light or electricity.

Digital information can maintain quality over a long distance transmission, as opposed to analog signals.

Discussion Questions

Before the Game

What are some ways we can communicate data? What are three types of technology that we use to communicate with each other and learn about the world?

After the Game

What is the main difference between digital signals and analog signals? What are three examples of devices that use digital signals? What are three examples of devices that use analog signals? What are the advantages of digital signals over analog signals? What is binary code? Why is the human voice considered an analog signal?