Empathy - with their robots and Block programming skills, students will learn to communicate clearly with their partners, offer praise and encouragement, and grow their classroom community. Story Telling - in this series of Block lessons, students will use their Sphero robots to represent the elements of a story, develop dialogue, retell historical events, and even overcome writer’s block. Game Design - bring out your inner gamer through a series of lessons designed to develop your Block programming skills—play Bingo, search for hidden treasure and build your own set of dice.
Key Features
- Use a series of nested controls—including loops & conditionals—to create more complex programs.
- Be able to use basic comparators & operators in their conditionals.
- Use functions as mini programs to perform a specific task within their larger program.
- Use and manipulate all Sphero sensors to meet appropriate purposes in their programs.
- Explain how variables are used in a program.
- Explain how Blocks equate to JavaScript code and manipulate specific sections of JS code.
What's included:
- A spiral-bound Course Educator Guide book containing 24 lessons
- A unique access code that grants a perpetual license to all digital student-facing materials and content
Additional Information
By the end of Course 2 students will be able to:
ACARA and NSW Curriculum
ACARA and NSW Curriculum links are available.
