Bit:bots are go!

Delving deeper with BBC micro:bits – Project 4 Objectives Understand looping as a form of iteration Understand and use variables in a program Understand and use conditional statements Combine inputs, loops, conditional statements and variables to create a micro:bit game Lesson Resources Lesson Slides Delving Deeper with BBC micro:bits Project 1 – Bit:bopping music Project…

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Inputs, loops, conditionals, variables… games!

Delving deeper with BBC micro:bits – Project 2 Objectives Understand looping as a form of iteration Understand and use variables in a program Understand and use conditional statements Combine inputs, loops, conditional statements and variables to create a micro:bit game Lesson Resources Lesson Slides Delving Deeper with BBC micro:bits Project 1 – Bit:bopping music Project…

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Analysing your findings and writing up your report

Making the news, part 1 – Lessons 5 & 6 Objectives undertake creative projects that involve selecting, using, and combining multiple applications to achieve challenging goals, including collecting and analysing data and meeting the needs of known users.   Analyses and evaluates data and information, and recognises that poor quality data leads to unreliable results, and…

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Carrying out your investigation

Making the news, part 1 – Lessons 3 & 4 Objectives undertake creative projects that involve selecting, using, and combining multiple applications to achieve challenging goals, including collecting and analysing data and meeting the needs of known users   understand a range of ways to use technology safely, respectfully, responsibly and securely, including protecting their online…

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Planning a news investigation

Making the news, part 1 – Lesson 2 Objectives Work collaboratively to effectively plan a research project Understand the ethics or safe practises of data collection and storage To understand how and why to give credit to external sources used in work Lesson Resources Lesson Slides Making the news – Part 1   Lesson 1…

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Our news sources

Making the news, part 1 – Lesson 1 Objectives Create, re-use, revise and re-purpose digital artefacts for a given audience, with attention to trustworthiness, design and usability Make judgements about digital content for credibility when evaluating and repurposing it for a given audience. Lesson Resources Lesson Slides Ofcom news consumption infographic Making the news -…

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Making the news – Part 1

About this unit: This unit is split into two parts. This first part requires students to examine the sources we use for our news, critique what they find online for credibility, and then plan, research and carry out their own investigative report linked to their school or local community. National Curriculum Links – Computing KS3 The…

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