{"id":10261,"date":"2022-03-17T17:03:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T17:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=10261"},"modified":"2022-03-17T17:03:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T17:03:16","slug":"british-science-week-coding-microbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/dg\/portpatrickprimary\/?p=10261","title":{"rendered":"British Science Week – Coding Microbits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Celebrating ‘all-things-science’ this week saw the Primary 5 to 7 pupils explore coding using Micro:bits using an \u201cif \u2026 then \u2026 else\u2026 \u201c statement to control what was happening with our LEDs\u00a0 and speakers when we pushed certain buttons.<\/p>\n

The children really enjoyed applying their computational thinking skills to bring block programming to life using these great bits of hardware!<\/p>\n

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  1. Algorithms-<\/strong>Creating step by step instructions or rules to solve a problem<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. Abstraction –<\/strong>Identifying key information & removing unnecessary details<\/em><\/li>\n
  3. Logic-<\/strong>To analyse and make predictions<\/em><\/li>\n
  4. Decomposition-<\/strong>Breaking a problem down into smaller manageable parts<\/em><\/li>\n
  5. Pattern Recognition-<\/strong>Observe patterns, trends and spot similarities<\/em><\/li>\n
  6. Evaluation-<\/strong>Assessing the solution and making judgements<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n