All about algorithms

Objectives Create and debug simple programs Use logical reasoning to predict the behaviour of simple programs Recognise common uses of information technology beyond school Resources Teacher Presentation Recap last week’s lesson and how they made their WeDo birds move. How did we program them? How do you create an algorithm with WeDo? Set their model…

Objectives Create and debug simple programs Use logical reasoning to predict the behaviour of simple programs Recognise common uses of information technology beyond school Resources Teacher Presentation Lego WeDo is a construction and programming set made by Lego Education. We have WeDo kits available to loan for schools that buy into our ICT for Learning SLA.…

Objectives Give precise and unambiguous instructions Create and debug simple programs Use logical reasoning to predict the behaviour of simple programs Resources Teacher Presentation Recap the last lesson where the students were asked to come up with precise instructions to create an algorithm for the robot teacher to make a jam sandwich. What sort of…

Objectives Understand what an algorithm is Give precise and unambiguous instructions Create and debug simple programs Resources Teacher Presentation Recap last week’s’ work. What was an algorithm? What sort of instructions were we giving last week? Recap the work on sequencing and direction.  Look at an example together on the IWB with 2Go. Get the children to…

Objectives Understand what an algorithm is Give precise and unambiguous instructions Create and debug simple programs Resources Teacher Presentation What is an algorithm? Start in the classroom. Does anyone know what an algorithm is? It’s a series of instructions, what does that mean if we give an instruction? What makes a good or bad instruction? Has anyone ever…