Learning objective

  • To understand what abstraction is.

Success criteria

  • I can explain what abstraction is.
  • I can give
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National curriculum

Computing

Pupils should be taught to:

  • Understand
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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Display the Presentation: 3, 2, 1 and remind the children of the previous lesson when they wrote algorithms to navigate the bunny around a maze. Allow time for paired discussion. Choose to show one slide of the presentation or all three.

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support:

Should discuss the key features to include before they start.

Pupils working at greater depth:

Should discuss whether the level of abstraction used is too much, too little or just right.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: explaining what abstraction is; creating a

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Vocabulary definitions

  • abstraction

    To pick out the important information.

  • key features

    Important parts of something

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Siobhan Morgan

Computing specialist

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Head of Computing at Exeter Junior School, Siobhan Morgan has nine years of computing teaching experience as well as experience from her role of ‘Subject Genius for Computing’ on TES. Siobhán enjoys spending time with her family and searching for the Gruffalo in the woodland…
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