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Physical Programming with LEGO®️ WeDo

Build and Code

Building LEGO®️ WeDo Models

This half term in computing with Mrs O’Kane, Year 3 and 4 are using Lego®️ WeDo to bring the physical world to life through code. They will be building models using the bricks they know and love and then program them interact with the world around them.

Using robotics promotes interest in science and engineering, as well as computer science and helps develop motor skills through model building. Mechanisms, built by and ultimately designed by, the pupils themselves set computer programming in a meaningful context. Children learn more quickly when a model executes a program, physically, right before them.

What Pupils Can Do with LEGO™ WeDo and iCompute

Program, using software , designing and creating working models
Use software to acquire information
Use feedback to adjust a programming system output
Work with simple machines, gears, levers, pulleys, transmission of motion
Measure time and distance, adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, estimating, randomness, using variables
Engage in narrative and journalistic writing, storytelling, explaining, interviewing, interpreting

Design: Use STEM principles to explore Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics and design models
Build: Improve motor function, communicate and collaborate with others in building working models and robots
Program: Create animated stories, and program models to interact with the story & physical world
Digital Literacy: Create factual and imaginative animations and narratives that explain, interpret and tell stories
Test : Use physical output as feedback to to detect errors easily
Debug: Correct errors found when models don’t behave as expected
Evaluate: Critically analyse work and that of others and discuss what is good, or not so good, about them
Improve: Revisit models and code then cycle through this process from ‘Design’ onward to make things better

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