Explore coding through this fun, engaging and hands-on inquiry unit. Students will learn to control the paths of either BlueBot or Sphero floor robots, creating their own codes to solve a problem. (45-60mins)
Victorian Curriculum Links
Digital Technologies
F-2
- Follow, describe and represent a sequence of steps and decisions (algorithms) needed to solve simple problems
Levels 3 and 4
- Explore a range of digital systems with peripheral devices for different purposes, and transmit different types of data
- Define simple problems, and describe and follow a sequence of steps and decisions involving branching and user input (algorithms) needed to solve them
Levels 5 and 6
- Design, modify and follow simple algorithms represented diagrammatically and in English, involving sequences of steps, branching, and iteration
Mathematics
Level 2
- Describe and draw two-dimensional shapes, with and without digital technologies
- Identify angles as measures of turn and compare angle sizes in everyday situations
Level 4
- Compare angles and classify them as equal to, greater than or less than a right angle
- Create symmetrical patterns, pictures and shapes with and without digital technologies
Level 5
- Estimate, measure and compare angles using degrees. Construct angles using a protractor
