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Home automation programming (yrs 5-6)

Investigate home automation systems, including those powered by artificial intelligence (AI) with speech recognition capability. These suggested activities provide a level of differentiation to cater for students’ range of programming skills. They were developed in collaboration with the Digital Technologies Institute.

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Year band(s)	5-6
Content type	Lesson ideas
Format	Web page
Core and overarching concepts	Digital systems, Data representation, Abstraction, Specification (decomposing problems), Algorithms, Impact and interactions, Implementation (programming)
Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s)	AC9TDI6K03 Explain how digital systems represent all data using numbers AC9TDI6P02 Design algorithms involving multiple alternatives (branching) and iteration AC9TDI6P05 Implement algorithms as visual programs involving control structures, variables and input AC9TDI6P06 Evaluate existing and student solutions against the design criteria and user stories and their broader community impact AC9TDI6K01 Investigate the main internal components of common digital systems and their function AC9TDI6K02 Examine how digital systems form networks to transmit data AC9TDI6P03 Design a user interface for a digital system AC9TDI6P07 Select and use appropriate digital tools effectively to create, locate and communicate content, applying common conventions AC9TDI6P08 Select and use appropriate digital tools effectively to share content online, plan tasks and collaborate on projects, demonstrating agreed behaviours
Technologies & Programming Languages	Artificial Intelligence
Keywords	Artificial Intelligence, AI, artificial, intelligence, teachable machine, smart phone, algorithms, problem solving, digital systems, Scratch, Lesson idea, Lesson plan, Digital Technologies Institute, home automation
Organisation	ESA
Copyright	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated.