Creating Solutions

Detailed Term Planner

Resources

Lower Primary

• Sesame Street Growth Mindset - Don’t Give Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWp6kkz-pnQ
• Sesame Street - Elmo Doesn't Give Up - Part 1 https://www.sesamestreet.org/toolkits/challenges
• Sesame Street - Power of Yet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLeUvZvuvAs
• BBC Learning - What Is An Algorithm - https://youtu.be/Da5TOXCwLSg
• BBC Learning - What Is Coding - https://youtu.be/XMZFUnAgOqs
• BBC Learning - What Are Computer Bugs - https://youtu.be/CGPjraqX_ac
• https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Unplugged-Activity-Bee-bot-Beebot-2721484
• BeeBot Treasure Map http://www.twinkl.com.au/resource/t-t-21952-bee-bot-treasure-map
• BeeBot Goldilocks http://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-t-27301-goldilocks-and-the-three-bears-bee-bot-mat
• Set of BeeBots Activities https://www.digitaltechnologieshub.edu.au/teachers/lesson-ideas/buzzing-with-bee-bots
• Mrs Chom's BeeBots Word Search Activity - https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ZNoxjPMw6Be4Uvd7LN5LayWrLdpFCHZi
• BeeBots Worksheets (differentiated) https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Unplugged-Activity-Bee-bot-Beebot-2721484
• Hello Ruby - Universal Remote Control http://www.helloruby.com/play/4
• Hello Ruby - Art and Algorithms - http://www.helloruby.com/play/16
• Story Map for use with Code.org Play Lab - https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FREEBIE-Story-Map-Setting-Characters-Beginning-Middle-End-2553274
• How does animation work - http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zskthyc
• How to make an animation - https://vimeo.com/103916939
• Assessment - https://globaldigitalcitizen.org/a-list-of-fast-and-fun-formative-assessment-tools

Online Safety - see Online Safety

Middle Primary

• Computational Thinking Quiz - https://www.quizizz.com/admin/quiz/59c0ba07c53c581100448bc7
• Growth mindset https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElVUqv0v1EE and https://ideas.classdojo.com/f/growth-mindset-2/0
• Resilience poster https://www.teachstarter.com/teaching-resource/resilience-poster/
• Computational Thinking Posters https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-what-is-computational-thinking-posters-11415759
• Decomposition - Exact Instructions challenge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDA3_5982h8
• Decomposition - Jam Sandwich Robot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leBEFaVHllE
• Pattern Recognition - https://code.org/curriculum/course2/5/Assessment5-GettingLoopy.pdf
• Introducing algorithms - https://www.digitaltechnologieshub.edu.au/teachers/lesson-ideas/introducing-algorithms
• Algorithms PPT http://www.twinkl.com.au/resource/cfe2-d-26-algorithms-powerpoint
• http://www.twinkl.com.au/resource/cfe2-d-27-create-your-own-algorithms-activity-sheet
• Repetition poster https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxkh6aKYy-qHQ3ZrY1l4bThIb28/view?usp=sharing
• Decisions poster https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxkh6aKYy-qHVHFIRXY3cW9YS1E/view?usp=sharing
• FlowCharts (Algorithm Design) - https://www.twinkl.com.au/resource/tp2-i-078-planit-computing-year-5-controlling-devices-flowol-lesson-1-what-is-a-flowchart-lesson-pack

Project

• Coding a lego maze http://researchparent.com/coding-a-lego-maze/
• Scratch Maze game (easier)
• Australian Curriculum Map - Scratch - Unit 1 https://codeclubau.org/curriculum/scratch1.html
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9QqjTwTzpk

Design Thinking

• Programming and robots - What are robots good at? Going places where humans can’t - bombs, nuclear reactors, space. Also doing repetitive tasks fast and without breaks, like assembly lines.
• Solution Fluency - https://globaldigitalcitizen.org/21st-century-fluencies/solution-fluency
• SOLE toolkit - https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/school-in-the.../SOLE_Toolkit_Web_2.6.pdf

Sharing/Communicating

• Create your web-safe avatar - https://mybluerobot.com/create-your-own-avatar/
• https://www.canva.com/create/infographics/
• https://piktochart.com/
• https://www.powtoon.com/
• http://breakyourownnews.com/
• http://pivotanimator.net/

Digital Citizenship - see Online Safety

Upper Primary

Computational Thinking Concepts

• Computational Thinking by JULES - https://youtu.be/mUXo-S7gzds
• Developing Computational Thinking - https://teachinglondoncomputing.org/resources/developing-computational-thinking/
• QUIZ Computational Thinking - https://www.quizizz.com/admin/quiz/59c0ba07c53c581100448bc7
• Growth mindset https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElVUqv0v1EE and https://ideas.classdojo.com/f/growth-mindset-2/0
• Resilience poster https://www.teachstarter.com/teaching-resource/resilience-poster/
• Computational Thinking Posters https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-what-is-computational-thinking-posters-11415759
• Decomposition - Exact Instructions challenge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDA3_5982h8
• Decomposition - Jam Sandwich Robot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leBEFaVHllE
• Pattern Recognition - https://code.org/curriculum/course2/5/Assessment5-GettingLoopy.pdf
• Introducing algorithms - https://www.digitaltechnologieshub.edu.au/teachers/lesson-ideas/introducing-algorithms
• Algorithms http://www.twinkl.com.au/resource/cfe2-d-55-algorithms-resource-pack
• Repetition poster https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxkh6aKYy-qHQ3ZrY1l4bThIb28/view?usp=sharing
• Decisions poster https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxkh6aKYy-qHVHFIRXY3cW9YS1E/view?usp=sharing
• Flow Charts - https://www.twinkl.com.au/resource/tp2-i-078-planit-computing-year-5-controlling-devices-flowol-lesson-1-what-is-a-flowchart-lesson-pack

Project

• Scratch Maze game (easier) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9QqjTwTzpk
• Scratch Maze game (advanced) https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/137670333/
• Australian Curriculum Map - Scratch - Unit 1 https://codeclubau.org/curriculum/scratch1.html

Design Thinking

• https://www.digitaltechnologieshub.edu.au/teachers/lesson-ideas/design-thinking-process---ideation
• Solution Fluency - https://globaldigitalcitizen.org/21st-century-fluencies/solution-fluency
• SOLE toolkit - https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/school-in-the.../SOLE_Toolkit_Web_2.6.pdf
• Using Makey Makey to introduce Coding http://www.thetechieteacher.net/2017/06/academic-ways-to-use-makey-makey-in.html
• I really like this Money calculator project with the Makey Makey http://www.thetechieteacher.net/2015/05/makey-makey-money-lesson.html

Game Design

• https://www.digitaltechnologieshub.edu.au/teachers/lesson-ideas/what-makes-a-good-game
• https://www.slideshare.net/InstantTechInfo/the-principles-of-game-design
• https://www.gamedesigning.org/learn/game-design-principles/

User Interfaces

• https://www.digitaltechnologieshub.edu.au/teachers/lesson-ideas/put-the-user-in-user-interface
• Designing a User interface https://www.digitaltechnologieshub.edu.au/teachers/lesson-ideas/put-the-user-in-user-interface
• Website Design - http://www.twinkl.com.au/resource/tp2-i-238-planit-computing-year-6-website-design-home-learning-tasks
• HTML5 Course - https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/beaucarnes/html-full-course-for-beginners--j49MHj8uK

Sharing/Communicating

• Use padlet for them to collect ideas from research
• Can blog using EduBlogs
• SeeSaw
• http://breakyourownnews.com/
• https://www.digitaltechnologieshub.edu.au/teachers/lesson-ideas/class-blog

Digital Citizenship - see Online Safety