Category Archives: Computing Science

Microbit Step Counters

We LOVE using microbits in Primary 6. They are mini computers that you can code. We have used them to display messages, make games and create animations.

In this lesson we created step counters. The microbits have motion sensors so we could programme them to count our steps. We also had the extra challenge of setting a step goal and coding our microbit to react when we reached our step goal. We got to choose and code what our microbits did when we achieved our goal. Some of the microbits played music, displayed an emoji or displayed a message. Here we are testing them out outside.