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Scratch
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Scratch

Subject: Digital Technologies

YearLevel: 5-6

Links to other Learning Areas: Literacy, Numeracy, The Arts, HASS and Science

Links to Cross Curricular Priorities/ General Capabilities: Numeracy, Critical and Creative Thinking, ICT.

Platform: Desktop/Laptop

Cost: Free

ACARALinks:

  • Design, modify and follow simple algorithms involving sequences of steps, branching, and iteration (repetition) (ACTDIP019)
  • Implement digital solutions as simple visual programs involving branching, iteration (repetition), and user input(ACTDIP020)
  • Acquire, store and validate different types of data, and use a range of software to interpret and visualise data to create information (ACTDIP016)
  • Examine the main components of common digital systems and how they may connect together to form networks to transmit data(ACTDIK014)

What is it?

Scratch is a Coding program that can be used in the classroom, to teach the basics of coding computers, however can also progress into more difficult coding projects as well. Scratch can be used by students with varied levels of capabilities, and is a fantastic tool to use in a peer teaching situation.

How is it used?

The program is both an online program accessed through Google Chrome (or FireFox) and can also be downloaded as a program onto any Desktop/Laptop computer. Students learn to create codes to animate backgrounds, images and characters. The online version is fantastic, as it has tutorials for students (and teachers) of different levels of ability. The tutorials go through step-by-step processes in order to achieve the set out goal. The program allows users to create stories, games and animations. Scratch can be used as a platform for students to present assignments as well as create interactive quizzes and games to be shared with peers.

Skills developed 

Practicing using code

Problem solving skills

Learning the language of code

Software knowledge

Accessing Scratch 

https://scratch.mit.edu

The image to the right is an example of how students develop of code in order to create an animation.

Codingame
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Codingame

Subject: Digital Technology

Year Level: 6

Strands:Digital Technologies: Knowledge and Understanding and Process and Production skills

Sub strands:Investigate and Define and Representation and Production skills

ACARA Links 

Data is represented using codes (ACTDIK015)

Create and communicate information, including online collaborative projects, using agreed social, ethical and technical protocols (codes of conduct) (ACTDIP022)

Cross curriculum priorities and general capabilities

Critical and creative thinking

Personal and social capability

Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

Literacy

Numeracy

Links to other learning areas

English

Mathematics

What is it?

Codingame is a program that allows students to improve their programming skills, while essentially playing a game! It allows students to develop a great base level understanding of coding with a lot a practice and turns their learning into a game. This program allows students to solve problems and learn new concepts while being motivated to learn more about how to code and program. Codingame is a great base tool for teachers to use to introduce students to coding and programming and building their digital technologies knowledge and skills.

How is it used?

Codingame can be used and accessed via the link to the resource. The program offers different options of how to play the game where they can participate in challenges and move through the levels of the game all while learning and developing their skills in pure code. The game can be scored, where the score is generated through how well the ‘code’ that the students have developed meets the specifics of the game.

Link to the resource

https://codingame.com/start

 

Skills developed

Practice pure code

Problem solving skills

Learn the language of code

Software knowledge

Image result for codingame

Scratch
by

Scratch

Subject: Digital Technologies

Year Level: 5-6

Links to other Learning Areas: Literacy, Numeracy, The Arts, HASS and Science

Links to Cross Curricular Priorities/ General Capabilities: Numeracy, Critical and Creative Thinking, ICT.

Platform: Desktop/Laptop

Cost: Free

ACARA Links:

  • Design, modify and follow simple algorithms involving sequences of steps, branching, and iteration (repetition) (ACTDIP019)
  • Implement digital solutions as simple visual programs involving branching, iteration (repetition), and user input (ACTDIP020)
  • Acquire, store and validate different types of data, and use a range of software to interpret and visualise data to create information (ACTDIP016)
  • Examine the main components of common digital systems and how they may connect together to form networks to transmit data (ACTDIK014)

Scratch is a Coding program that can be used in the classroom, to teach the basics of coding computers, however can also progress into more difficult coding projects as well. Scratch can be used by students will varied levels of capabilities, and is a fantastic tool for peer mentoring.

The program is both an online program accessed through Google Chrome (or FireFox) and can also be downloaded as a program onto any Desktop/Laptop computer.

The program allows uses to create stories, games and animations. Scratch could be used as a platform for students to present assignments as well as create interactive quizzes and games to be shared with peers.

The online version is fantastic, as it has tutorials for students (and teachers) of different levels of ability. The tutorials go through step-by-step processes in order to achieve the set out goal.

https://scratch.mit.edu