DT Challenge - 5/6 Blockly - Space Invaders
Enlist now to command an alien space fleet to save your home planet from global catastrophe. Build a fleet of drone ships using advanced top-secret technologies, like algorithms, sequence, iteration and branching. On your journey to Earth, meet the Doctor, slingshot around a black hole, land on distant moons and mine for valuable resources. Your mission is to outsmart Earth’s Global Defense System in your quest for precious water.
We are counting on you, Commander! Long live the Zargan Empire.
Watch the mission briefing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6tq8UuUpXw
To do the challenge offline use this guide to support students.
Additional details
| Year band(s) | 5-6 |
|---|---|
| Content type | Tools for learning, Student challenges |
| Format | Web page |
| Core and overarching concepts | Implementation (programming), Computational thinking |
| Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s) |
ACTDIP017
Define problems in terms of data and functional requirements drawing on previously solved problems
ACTDIK015
Examine how whole numbers are used to represent all data in digital systems
ACTDIP020
Implement digital solutions as simple visual programs involving branching, iteration (repetition), and user input
ACTDIP021
Explain how student solutions and existing information systems are sustainable and meet current and future local community needs
ACTDIP018
Design a user interface for a digital system
ACTDIP019
Design, modify and follow simple algorithms involving sequences of steps, branching, and iteration (repetition)
ACTDIP022
Plan, create and communicate ideas and information, including collaboratively online, applying agreed ethical, social and technical protocols |
| Technologies & Programming Languages | other programming languages |
| Keywords | Data: Collection, Representation, Interpretation, Specification, Algorithms, Adaptations, Science, Branching, Interaction, Input, Output, Australian Computing Academy, Blockly |
| Organisation | Australian Computing Academy |
| Copyright | University of Sydney. Creative Commons BY 4.0. |
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