Robotics @ Holy Cross
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Holy Cross is excited to welcome mBots, Beebots and Sphero balls to the Digital Technologies curriculum. These robots will be incorporated across different year levels with an emphasis on coding and programming. To be effective in developing the Digital Technologies Curriculum we purchased new chromebooks at the beginning of the 2018 school year as well as iPads to complement student learning from Prep to Grade 6. Recently Hallee and Angus from grade 6 spent an afternoon building and testing the mBots, some of the grade 4's were very excited seeing them in action. |
Buddies & Beebots!
This term the preps have been learning to program and code with their grade 6 buddies. They read the book 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' and identified all the places visited in the text. From here, the students were introduced to some simple programming language. They then used this language to program the movement of their Beebot to each place from the book onto a grid.
After recording their code on paper, they had to program and test their Beebot to see if they were successful. Changes were made if their Beebot went off track (incorrectly programmed). The students were engaged and enjoyed the lesson!
After recording their code on paper, they had to program and test their Beebot to see if they were successful. Changes were made if their Beebot went off track (incorrectly programmed). The students were engaged and enjoyed the lesson!
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THE CURRICULUM
The Digital Technologies Curriculum is broken up into three parts:
-DIGITAL SYSTEMS
-DATA AND INFORMATION
-CREATING DIGITAL SOLUTIONS
ICT are the tools used to help achieve the above.
-DIGITAL SYSTEMS
-DATA AND INFORMATION
-CREATING DIGITAL SOLUTIONS
ICT are the tools used to help achieve the above.
