Resources
Session 1 - Personal Information
In this activity children will understand what is meant by ‘personal information’ and what this means in the digital world.
Session 1 - Protecting Your Privacy
In this session you will help your ...
Session 1 - Real-life algorithms: paper airplanes
The main objective of this session is to understand what algorithms are.
Instructions:
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Session 1 - Tinkering
Our first activity introduces children to the fakebot (a printed or drawn Beebot). It allows your child/ren to explore through play what something can or cannot do. This is known as tinkering.
Please see the session plan for further guidance.
Session 1: Count the Dots Binary Numbers
In this session you will look at what a binary numbers. Understanding how numbers are made in binary will help you access the next session on images. Steps 1 to 9 explains the activity to be done which is to fill in a table making binary numbers (Worksheet). The extension does not need to be done to understand the...
Session 2 - 1, 2, 3 Programming Activity
This week's activity continues to use a fakebot (a printed or drawn Beebot) to create numbers.
Many of the concepts and approaches built into this lesson support computational thinking (problem solving):
• They use decomposition to break down the numerals into sections, making it easier to write the...
Session 2 - 2D Shape Drawings Activity: an Introduction to Debugging Algorithms
The main objective of this session is to understand what debugging and logical reasoning is, by using a 2D drawing and algorithm...
Session 2 - Binary Numbers
This session introduces you to converting denary or base 10 numbers to binary digits and back again. It consists of two files, a set of slides explaining how binary conversions work and a worksheet.
- Read the slides in Slides - Binary Digits about binary digits. Make sure you are clear on how the values...