Learning objective
- To recognise how technology is controlled.
Success criteria
- I can understand that people control technology.
- I can
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National curriculum
Computing
Pupils should be taught to:
- Use
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Cross-curricular links
English
Spoken language
Pupils should be taught
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Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
1: Lesson plan
An area for you to put useful resources from the previous lesson
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Adaptive teaching
For pupils needing extra support
Could be given limited options for what their robot could do if they struggle with generating ideas; could be provided with a word bank and sentence stems to assist with their robot explanation.
Pupils working at greater depth
Should explain how we know whether technology is doing what we asked it to do (i.e. the output); should label and explain their robot’s output.
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Assessing progress and understanding
Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: recognising that buttons cause effects; recognising
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Vocabulary definitions
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device
Equipment created for a certain purpose or job.
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input
A way of telling the computer what you want it to do.
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