U2Ch1L2_Text Compression
Purpose: Students will learn the process of compressing text.
Vocabulary: Compression & Heuristics

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCGkcn1f-ms&feature=youtu.be

Activity: Handout “Decode This Message.”

Visit Code Studio – Begin compressing poems.
5 min. limit…compete!
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Handout: Backside of “Text Compression” – ‘Develop a Heuristic.’
Introduce after you compress a few poems / this is a good way to introduce Heuristics.
After several poems, have the students write out the rules they are developing and following. !This is a Heuristic!

Now have students share their Heuristic.
Continue compressing poems.