In this Lesson you will learn about:
Learning Objectives:
  1. How sound can be sampled and stored in digital format
  2. how sampling intervals and other factors affect the size of the sound file
  • sample size
  • bit rate
  • sampling frequency
Lesson Overview
Starter:
Watch this video: What does sound sound like?!  

Main:
In this lesson you will learn how Binary code can be used to store sound. You will look at sampling and how the notes / binary values are calculated (Task 1). Can you spot the difference between a high sample rate and a low sample rate file?  What is the sample rate of a Telephone?

Success Criteria:
  1. Know how data is used to represent sound
  2. Explain how sounds are sampled
Resources
Examples of Samples
Sample Tasksheet
File Size: 562 kb
File Type: pdf
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