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Race For The Line: Curriculum
Lesson Plan: “First Steps With Micro:bit”
Subject/s:
Computing
Focus:
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Instructions within a computer system
Undertake creative programming
Use of a software emulator of a device (micro:bit onscreen)
Making programs respond to events
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e.g. button presses
Change the content of a computer display
Make a program repeat an action a set number of times
Downloading programs to micro:bit devices to test and use
Time:
45 minutes
Key Stage:
KS3
Prior Learning:
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Some understanding of computer coding using a blocks type system such as Scratch
Familiarity with making USB and battery connections and dragging and dropping files.
Lesson Objectives:
Students will understand how to create a program for micro:bit that will display customisable
messages on the screen and respond to button presses and other user events.
Students will use a repeat block to make a micro:bit do something a set number of times.
Resources:
Worksheets, Micro:bits (+battery packs
and USB connections), Laptops or PCs
with internet access
Activities:
Discuss how a micro:bit needs a program downloaded to work and that until a new
program is downloaded, the micro:bit will keep using the last program that was
downloaded to it.
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Share the image of the micro:bit and ensure students can identify and make a USB
connection
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Have the students follow the instruction to complete and download a program to their
micro:bits
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Have the students modify their programs
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e.g. displays other messages, do other things in
response to different button presses, etc.
Assessment opportunities:
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Demonstration, discussion and application in project work
Extension ideas:
Create team badges and display sponsor messages, have different button presses display text,
numbers and basic drawings, change the speed of scrolling, etc.
Vocabulary:
code, program, input, button, if-then, loops & repeats,
compile, download, screen, pixel, event, block

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