Representing audio in digital systems

In this lesson, students explore how digital systems represent audio. They learn about the concepts of sampling and digital audio representation. Through activities and discussions, students discover how audio is converted into a digital format and the advantages and limitations of audio representation in digital systems.

Additional details

Year band(s) 7-8
Content type Lesson ideas
Format Web page
Core and overarching concepts Data representation
Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s)
AC9TDI8K04   

Explain how and why digital systems represent integers in binary

AC9TDI8K03   

Investigate how digital systems represent text, image and audio data using integers

Keywords digital format, audio, sampling, bitrate, Audacity, audio bites, sound waves, distortion
Organisation

ESA

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