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 Unplugged Activity - Binary Code Keychains How I Use This in the Classroom     As a STREAM teacher at a small school, I teach science enrichment for students in grades PreK3 through 4th grade.  While most of the lessons correlate with the science, some of my lessons circle around technology.       One of my favorites to do with my third grade class is make binary code keychains.  We talk about how just like we have to follow directions in the classroom, so do computers and other devices we use everyday.  We discuss what directions computers have to follow in order for them to work how we want.  Then we start to talk about the activity . How to Use This Activity     After we have this discussion, I pass out the worksheets and we read the paragraph at the top together.  Then the students write their initial of their first name and last name.  Also, I usually have the students circle their initials also with the b...