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Art and design Computing Design and technology French Geography History Music Physical education Spanish Religion and worldviews RSE & PSHE Science Wellbeing

Lesson 4: Bee-Bot world

Programming Bee-Bots with instructions to reach an exact destination.

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Learning objective

To program a device.

Success criteria

I can personalise my Bee-Bot world.
I can consider

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National curriculum

Computing

Pupils should be taught to:

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Cross-curricular links

Geography

Geographical skills and fieldwork

Pupils should

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Display the Presentation: Agree or disagree? and arrange the children in pairs. Read the slide and allow time for paired discussion. Encourage the children to explain why they agree or disagree.

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Could navigate the mat one step at a time even if the end goal is three steps away (e.g. select clear > move > go each time); could use Resource: Bee-Bot mat images to place on their pre-made mat.

Pupils working at greater depth

Should plan their route getting from A to C while avoiding B (see Wrapping up).

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: identifying a destination and getting the

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Vocabulary definitions

Bee-Bot

A small programmable floor robot with seven buttons (forwards, backwards, turn right, turn left, go, pause and clear).
program

A series of instructions that are written for a computer to follow.

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In this unit

Assessment - Computing Y1: Programming: Bee-Bot

Lesson 1: Getting to know a Bee-Bot

Lesson 2: Making a Bee-Bot video

Lesson 3: Precise instructions

Lesson 4: Bee-Bot world

Lesson 5: Three little pigs

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Sway Grantham

Computing specialist

Sway Grantham (@SwayGrantham) is a Primary School Teacher, a CAS Master Teacher and Specialist Leader in Education for Primary ICT. She also has a BCS Certificate in Computer Science Teaching (Primary). She has written several curricula and conducted research into the impact of 1:1…

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