Mrs Hall of DG STEM Team joined us today to deliver a Lego Wedo Coding Workshop to P5 – 7 pupils.
The children explored the component parts in the construction kit before using bluetooth to pair their controller to their IPad.
Using a theme of sustainable sources of energy to fit with our science and social studies topic, the children built a wind turbine from a schematic diagram. Next, they assembled the coding blocks to turn the blades. As an extension, the boys and girls varied the r.p.m. of the blade rotation and also changed to direction of rotating – pulsed and fixed.
The next challenge was to take what we had learned about turning motors and varying speeds to construct a moon rover. The children thought hard on which coding blocks to use to make the rover move forwards and backwards, change light colour and make sounds. As an even bigger challenge, they were tasked with what construction part to make the rover turn. This was achieved by reducing the size of one of the wheels on the front axle. This changed the rotation rate of one of the wheels, thus creating a turn.
Thank you to Mrs Hall for giving the children the opportunity to use and apply computational thinking.
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