Arecibo Message – worksheets and solutions

Classroom activities

Arecibo Pixel Puzzle – planets and telescope

Follow the colour key or choose your own colours (you’ll need 3 different ones) and colour in the picture. If you’re using the suggested colours, colour all the 0s as black, all the 3s as yellow and all the 6s as purple. [Puzzle] [Solution]

Make a picture come to life with Excel

You’ll create a comma separated variable file (of 1s and 0s) and import the data into Excel, then bring out the image by using Find and Replace to alter the 1s and 0s. [Instructions]