Smart communities
In this unit, students explore how people can incorporate computing and technology into their surroundings in a way that is responsive to the needs of their community. Students will incorporate loops, conditional statements, user inputs, and sensing blocks to program simulations of responsive systems such as traffic lights and streetlights. They will then consider a problem in their community and prototype a potential solution.
Additional details
| Year band(s) | 5-6 |
|---|---|
| Content type | Course or tutorial, Lesson ideas |
| Format | Web page |
| Core and overarching concepts | Implementation (programming), Computational thinking |
| Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s) |
AC9TDI6P05
Implement algorithms as visual programs involving control structures, variables and input |
| Technologies & Programming Languages | Scratch |
| Keywords | visual programming language, variables, branching |
| Integrated, cross-curriculum, special needs | Digital Literacy, HASS |
| Organisation | Raspberry Pi Foundation |
| Copyright | © Raspberry Pi Foundation. May be subject to statutory licence fee. |
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