Y1 Computational Thinking / Inquiry
The Year 1’s have been venturing into the new Digital technology curriculum to learn unplugged computer science activities.
Aim:To integrate digital technology into the Junior School Inquiry programme based on the theme of “Peace”
Year 1 initially talked of robots and how they think and act with sequential movements. They were faced with a new student in the their class called RED the Robot. The girls had to teach RED to be a responsible student at St Margarets (class Inquiry).
The Junior School Inquiry focus on Peace investigated world renowned peace heroes as well as smaller things in life that also give inner peace. Inner peace in the form of playing with friends and the girls love of fairies brought a combination of sequential steps to create fairy gardens.
We have listened, verbalised, reordered, wrote, drawn and rearranged pictorial sequential algorithms.
Lesson Expectations:
- Accurately count from one space to the next one.
- Actively listen to the feedback and debug the program.
- Communicate when the code isn’t correct so that the person knows what needs debugging.
- Explain why it’s important to give very exact instructions.
- Follow instructions accurately.
- Give accurate instructions at a pace that the person can follow.
- Give a set of instructions that programs an object to move from one point to another.
- Identify where a bug has occurred and be able to correct the code to allow the object to move to the desired destination.
Students have:-
given arrow and verbal instructions as sequential algorithms.
reordered pictorial instructions to complete a story and make a flower garden base.
labelled fairy garden plans to follow. These show the girls’ fabulous ideas.
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followed their plans to start building their gardens.
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