Information Transfer

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knowledge, facts, and data that helps us learn and make sense of the world around us

• information

• information transfer

• digital information

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the process of sharing or moving information from one place or person to another

• information

• information transfer

• digital information

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NGSS.MS-PS4-3

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information that is made up of numbers and signals, which computers can read and display on screens as pictures, videos, and words

• information

• information transfer

• digital information

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NGSS.MS-PS4-3

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something that happens in a regular and predictable way

• encode

• decode

• pattern

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

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turning pictures or messages into a special code that someone else can read or understand

• encode

• decode

• pattern

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to figure out a message that has been hidden in a code

• encode

• decode

• pattern

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a system of representing information using only 0s and 1s that is used by digital devices such as computers

• binary code

• digital information

• pattern

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-3

From the options below, select all of the examples of how information transfer can occur in daily life.

• speaking to a friend about he score of last night's football game

• writing a message to your grandma using your phone

• sending a photo of your school project to your teacher

• observing how animals in a forest behave after a storm

• noticing the grey clouds in the sky and predicting rain

Writing a story is an example of __________.

• encoding

• decoding

Reading a message written in morse code is an example of __________.

• encoding

• decoding