Willowbrook Primary

Session & Skills

Plan

1

DCF – Collaborate with a partner on a piece of digital work.

DCF – Use an internet browser independently.

DCF – Follow a sequence of steps to solve a problem

Practice Session 1

The children practised logging on, accessing google chrome, using the search engine with ‘microbit’ as the key term and selecting ‘Let’s Code!’ on the BBC microbit website. When there, they practised using the ‘Name Tag’ tutorial to make the microbit display their name with its LED lights.

2

DCF – Collaborate with a partner on a piece of digital work.

DCF – Use an internet browser independently.

DCF – Follow a sequence of steps to solve a problem

Practice Session 2

The children practised logging on, accessing google chrome, using the search engine with ‘microbit’ as the key term and selecting ‘Let’s Code!’ on the BBC microbit website. When there, they practised using either the ‘Smiley Faces’ tutorial or the ‘Flashing Heart’ tutorial to make the microbit display an image with its LED lights.

3

Pupil Voice

FPP (LLC) O4 – Talk to and respond to others during shared activities

Project Planning

I asked the children to think, pair, share the different ways we have programmed a microbit so far.

I asked them how we could use one of these programmes to make the microbit do something linked with our topic ‘All Around the World!’

They came up with the idea of using the 'Name Tag' tutorial but entering a country as the text instead of their name. We chose five different countries that we had already learned to display on our microbits.

4

DCF – Collaborate with a partner on a piece of digital work.

DCF – Use an internet browser independently.

DCF – Follow a sequence of steps to solve a problem

DCF – Change instructions to achieve a different outcome.

Programming

Using the five countries the children chose, I put information for each country on the board (this included the name of the country and a picture of its flag).

The children worked in groups of three to program a microbit using the ‘Name Tag’ tutorial.

They programmed their microbit to display the name of a country of their choice (from the 5 options on the board), not telling any of the other groups what country they had chosen.

We want to find out which of the five countries is the most popular among children in our class.

5

FPP (LLC) O4 – Use strategies to decode unfamiliar words, tracking print with their eyes.

Flag Colouring

A member of each group came to the front and displayed their programmed microbit. All other children in the class got a whiteboard and a pen. They wrote down the letters they see flashing across the LEDs and read what they hadwritten on their whiteboard. Could they work out what country this group chose?

After we had worked out which country each group had chosen, the children picked a partner and drew and coloured the flag of the country they chose to give to their partner.

6

FPP (MD) O4 – Collect information by voting or sorting and represent the total in pictures, objects or lists and tables.

Data Presenting

We collected data to find out how many groups chose to display each country on their microbit. We collected it in the form of a tally, doing this as a class. The children used this tally (shown on the whiteboard) to create a block graph displaying our data. They created their block graph using the ‘2graph’ tool in ‘Infant Video Toolkit’. Finally, they saved their graph using their name as a filename.