Resources
Session Eight: Follow-On and Extension Work on Multiple Repeat Loops and Nested Repeats
Lesson 8 in a series of lessons using Rapid Router, the game-like environment for learning programming. This session takes loops and repetition further, and includes reusing statements and nested loops.
The resource includes wall displays, worksheets, model answers and assessment sheets.
Session Five: Create a More Complex Algorithm to Deliver One or More Packages on the Way
The 5th lesson in the Rapid Router series adds complexity to algorithms, raising the level of challenge and building on familiar contexts from earlier activities.
Also included are wall displays, teacher and peer assessment sheets, worksheets and model solutions.
Session Five: Extension Group Activity
This extension activity features in the upper-primary Blockly course, by the Rapid Router team at Code for Life. It explores the limits of generalised solutions, introducing children to the idea of algorithm testing and debugging. Children are asked to apply logical thinking to different problems, and analyse what...
Session Five: Writing Basic Code Directly in Python
This activity makes the leap from Blockly to Python programming. The 'grocery van driving challenge' is reduced from previous lessons to allow students to concentrate on syntax and correct coding using a limited set of instructions. Matching of Blockly and Python code is encouraged to assist the transition.
...Session Four
This resource contains the fourth session of the Active Approaches to Level Three Applied Science, produced by the Science Learning Centres and the Nuffield Foundation. The session looks at developing assignments, their learning objectives and structure and warns against malpractice and plagiarism. It also...
Session Four: Creating Simple Algorithms to Reach a Single Destination Along the Shortest Route
In the 4th lesson of a series for lower primary school computing, children use the online Rapid Router environment to learn more about algorithms. They learn that there can be more than one algorithm to achieve the same outcome, and that these can be selected according to efficiency. They further debug sequences in...
Session Four: General Solution Using Repeat until and if...do...
This Rapid Router lesson uses the Blockly language to develop ideas about selection, repetition, and conditionals. Children progress from specific instructions to spot patterns that can be made into generalised solutions. This important step helps learning about abstraction and pattern generalisation, two...
Session Four: Understanding More Python Commands
This activity in the Rapid Router series takes children further in their transition to text-based programming in Python.
By creating Blockly programs and comparing them to the automatically-generated Python code, children are encouraged to identify code which matches. The complexity of the problems is...
Session Nine: Children Create Their Own Routes
This lesson, in the Blockly Rapid Router series, challenges children to create their own maps which are then offered to classmates to solve. Creating the maps requires logical...
Session One
This resource contains the first session of the Active Approaches to Level Three Applied Science, produced by the Science Learning Centres and the Nuffield Foundation. The session includes two activities: Gallery of quotes and Making sense of texts.
*Gallery of quotes - students are asked to read and...