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This activity shows learners how computers use numbers to represent pictures. A grid is used to represent the pixels (short for picture elements) of a computer screen.

This activity explores the main algorithms that are used as the basis for searching on computers, using different variations on the game of battleships.

This activity helps students learn how computers "compress" text by identifying repeating patterns of letters, words, and phrases.

In this puzzle, learners investigate the decisions involved in linking a network between houses in a muddy city.

In this activity, learners help a poor cartographer color in the countries on a map, making sure each country is colored a different color than any of its neighbors.

This magic trick is based on how computers detect and correct data errors.

This activity lets learners participate in the process of reconstructing a phylogenetic tree and introduces them to several core bioinformatics concepts, particularly in relation to evolution.

In this activity, learners will explore coding by arranging words and phrases to create an order of operations in this low tech version of computer programming.

In this design challenge, learners will use computational thinking to design their own board game.

In this pencil and paper activity, learners work in pairs and simulate how astronomical spacecraft and computers create images of objects in space.

Learners use scientific processes to solve a crime. As they get clues, learners must create a hypothesis then adjust that hypothesis as more information is revealed.

This game is like regular bingo, except the clues are sounds.

In this math activity (Page 17 of the Play Ball! PDF), learners play a game of "baseball" and analyze the results of the game.

In this activity about encryption, learners cut out a secret decoder badge from a handout and use it to encode messages to each other.