Celebrating ‘all-things-science’ this week saw the Primary 5 to 7 pupils explore coding using Micro:bits using an “if … then … else… “ statement to control what was happening with our LEDs and speakers when we pushed certain buttons.
The children really enjoyed applying their computational thinking skills to bring block programming to life using these great bits of hardware!
- Algorithms-Creating step by step instructions or rules to solve a problem
- Abstraction –Identifying key information & removing unnecessary details
- Logic-To analyse and make predictions
- Decomposition-Breaking a problem down into smaller manageable parts
- Pattern Recognition-Observe patterns, trends and spot similarities
- Evaluation-Assessing the solution and making judgements
If you would like to have a go at programming at home, why not visit https://microbit.org/projects/make-it-code-it/?filters=makecode
Select a project and open in ‘make code editor’. This has a Micro:bit simulator – no Micro:bit needed!
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