Cargo Bot

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:

Sustainability

General Capabilities:

Literacy

Information and Communication Technology Capability

Critical and Creative Thinking

Personal and Social Capability

 

 

By Jarrod Kuah

 

 

TinkerCad

Do your students love to build?

TinkerCad is a fun, innovative and engaging way to allow your students imaginations to come to life. It was first founded in 2011, bringing the first browser-based 3D design platform to the world.

TinkerCad allows your students to create their ideas into 3D images which in the upper years they can then print them off if they have access to a 3D printer. If not, they can save their creations and create a design portfolio for all the objects they have made. This is an exciting way to get all students involved and they are only limited by their imaginations.

Subject: Technologies

Year Level: 3 – 6

Strand: Design Technologies

Sub Strands:

Knowledge and Understanding

Processes and Production Skills

Curriculum Links (specific to TinkerCad)

Develop and communicate ideas using labelled drawings and appropriate technical terms

Use criteria to evaluate and justify simple design processes and solutions

Suitability and safe practice when using materials, tools and equipment for a range of purposes (ACTDEK013)

Use criteria to evaluate and justify simple design processes and solutions

Develop and communicate design ideas and decisions using annotated drawings and appropriate technical terms

Cross Curriculum Priorities:

Sustainability

General Capabilities:

Literacy

Numeracy

Information and Communication Technology Capability

Critical and Creative Thinking

Personal and Social Capability

Further Links:

Youtube introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCaenAGeK_Q

 

 

 

 

 

By Jarrod Kuah