Learning objective
- To use code to program and control a product.
Success criteria
- I can write
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National curriculum
Design and technology
Pupils should be
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Cross-curricular links
Computing
Pupils should be
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Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
Recap and recall
Remind children of prior experience with block coding; this could have been in Year 2 with a piece of software like ScratchJr or in Year 3 with Scratch. Display this example of block code and ask if they can remember anything about it.
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Extended-mode explainer videos
How to extend your display to view the lesson page and preseantion mode simultaneously. Choose your operating system below to watch the video
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Extended-mode explainer video: For Mac
Extended-mode explainer video: For Windows
Adaptive teaching
Pupils needing extra support
Could use slides three and four in the Presentation: Programming the LED to flash to help them build their code; could be encouraged to check what is the same and what is different between their code and that displayed on the slides.
Pupils working at greater depth
Could explore beyond the prescribed code; could, during pauses in the videos, see if they can suggest code blocks that might come next – particularly during the second video; could try using the show LEDs block and changing which LEDs light up to create a unique pattern; could move on to the extension task.
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Assessing progress and understanding
Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: writing a program that
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Vocabulary definitions
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control
To ensure something works in the way that it should.
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electronic
A device that uses components that use electricity.
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Example work
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In this unit
Maintained by: Kapow Primary team
Last update: 19th April, 2023
