Classroom ideas: Micro:bit Environmental Measurement (visual programming) (Years 5-6)
This tutorial shows the coding needed for digital solutions of some environmental issues that can be created using pseudocode and visual programming. It can also be created using general-purpose programming.
Additional details
| Year band(s) | 5-6 |
|---|---|
| Content type | Lesson ideas |
| Format | Document |
| Core and overarching concepts | Abstraction, Data acquisition, Data interpretation, Algorithms, Implementation (programming), Specification (decomposing problems), Impact and interactions, Computational thinking, Systems thinking |
| Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s) |
AC9TDI6K01
Investigate the main internal components of common digital systems and their function
AC9TDI6K02
Examine how digital systems form networks to transmit data
AC9TDI6P02
Design algorithms involving multiple alternatives (branching) and iteration
AC9TDI6P03
Design a user interface for a digital system
AC9TDI6P04
Generate, modify, communicate and evaluate designs
AC9TDI6P05
Implement algorithms as visual programs involving control structures, variables and input |
| Keywords | Data collection, data representation, data interpretation, DTiF, dtif, DTIF, ACARA, microbit, micro:bit, environment, digital solution, general purpose programming, visual programming, programming |
| Integrated, cross-curriculum, special needs | Literacy, Digital Literacy, Numeracy |
| Organisation | Australian Government Department of Education and Training |
| Copyright | Australian Government Department of Education and Training, CC BY 4.0 |
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