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