Year 5 Digital Technology

Year 5 Digital Technology - Binary Code

Throughout the year, students in Year 5 will focus on the Digital Technology (DT) curriculum, covering a range of topics aimed at building students’ understanding and skills in computational thinking, information systems, and digital systems.

The Year 5 students have begun their exploration of ‘DT’ by focusing on understanding binary code. Binary code is a system of representing text, computer processor instructions or other data using the binary number system, which uses only two digits: 0 and 1. It is the fundamental language of computers and digital systems, enabling them to process and store information.

Students experimented with writing their own words, messages and sentences in binary code.

Can you work out what these binary codes mean?

01001000 01001001 – Lam01010000 01100101 01101110 01100111 01110101 01101001 01101110 – Tyler

01001000 01001001 – Kai

01001011 01101001 01110100 01110100 01111001 – Hannah

01000010 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110010 01111001 00100000

01100011 01101111 01100100 01100101 01110011 – Cynthia

01001011 01100101 01110110 01101001 01101110 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 0010000 01100010 01100101 01110011 01110100 – Kevin

0100100001100101011011000110110001101111001000000100001001100101011101000110100000100000001011100010000001001001001000000110010001101001011001000110100101100100011010010110010000010011101101110011010000100000 01101100 01101001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01110000 01110010 01101111 01101010 01100101 01100011 01110100 - Shaheer