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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: Programming a pedometer

Investigating how to turn the BBC micro:bit into a pedometer and further developing debugging skills.

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Learning objective

To create a program for a specific task.

Success criteria

I can recognise code blocks.
I can decompose a

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National curriculum

Computing

Pupils should be taught to:

Design,

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Cross-curricular links

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Display the Presentation: Explain it and arrange the children into pairs.

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Should use the Activity: Pedometer algorithm: support version and use the blocks provided to focus on the sequence.

Pupils working at greater depth

Should decompose the project independently; should complete Activity: Pedometer algorithm: extension.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: choosing appropriate blocks to complete the

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Vocabulary definitions

code blocks

A visual representation for a section of code that performs a certain job. They can be snapped together to build a program.
decompose

To break something down into smaller chunks.

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In this unit

Assessment - Computing Y5: Micro:bit

Lesson 1: Tinkering with BBC Micro:bit

Lesson 2: Programming an animation

Lesson 3: Polling program

Lesson 4: Programming a pedometer

Lesson 5: Programming a scoreboard

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Richard Williams

Computing specialist

Richard is a Year 6 Teacher at St. Pancras Primary School. Richard’s passion for teaching was recognised when he received Suffolk’s ‘Raising The Bar’ award for Innovation 2016. With his class he made the world’s first guided VR:360 school tour and also a…

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