Lesson Plan
180-200 Minutes (3-4 class sessions)

Digital Transmission

  • Engineering
  • Physical Science
  • STEM
  • Technology
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Lesson Plan (PDF)

Overview

Explore the science behind photography as students manipulate shutter speed, capture light motion trails and transmit digital images. Students will learn how a smart device camera works by identifying the wave behavior and how basic physics principles were utilized in the design, creation and transmittance of their image. Working together, they will investigate how a digital image is sent, how photo filters work and learn about the relationship between pixels and properties of light. The lesson concludes with a discussion about the real-world problems smart device cameras solve, the needs they address and careers in this field.
21st CENTURY SKILLS
Collaboration
Communication
Creativity
Critical Thinking

DESIGN PRINCIPLES
Defining the Problem
Creating or Prototyping
Refining or Improving

Objectives

  • Capture a digital image and manipulate shutter speed 
  • Describe how a digital image is created and transmitted using properties of light 
  • Explore how light waves are captured by a camera and converted to a digital image 

 

Suggested Time

180-200 Minutes (3-4 class sessions)