Cargo Bot is a free application available for download through the iTunes store, for Apple iPads or on Windows 10 through Microsoft’s Windows Universal App platform. It is designed as a simple-to-use puzzle game that challenges your brain and helps you learn programming concepts.
It’s a puzzle game where you teach a robot how to move crates.
Subject: Digital Technologies
Year Level: 1 – 3
Strands:
Knowledge and Understanding
Processes and Production Skills
Sub Strands:
Use data to solve a simple task/problem (ACTDIP003)
Use data to solve similar tasks/problems (ACTDIP003)
Data can have patterns and can be represented and used to make simple conclusions (ACTDIK002)
Use visually represented sequenced steps (algorithms), including steps with decisions made by the user (branching) (ACTDIP011)
Create a sequence of steps to solve a given task
Cross Curriculum Priorities:
General Capabilities:
Literacy
Information and Communication Technology Capability
Critical and Creative Thinking
Personal and Social Capability
By Jarrod Kuah