P5 – 7 were treated to an in-person workshop on designing games online using arcade make code. This was the third of three workshops on using coding to design gaming activities.
Morna Fiskin fron My World of Work, travelled to Leswalt, Kirkcolm and Portpatrick to meet with our pupils to help develop their computational skills.
We first of all learned that Scotland is the second largest producer of space satellites after America, which is impressive. The children discussed how the space industry is a career option for our nation. We chatted about different careers options.
There is 100,000,000,000 pieces of space junk estimated to be orbiting earth. That’s 14 zeros!
We designed a game to shoot at space debris to destroy it. We selected sprite, control , scene, maths coding blocks to construct our programme. There was lots of special effects such as shooting the debris down with pizzas, tacos and and lemons! We had to code to direct the missiles to intercept the debris.
Thank you so much Morna for travelling down to work with the children. They literally had a blast!
UNCRC Rights of the Child – Articl 29 Aims of Education
