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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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

  • device

    Equipment created for a certain purpose or job.

  • input

    A way of telling the computer what you want it to do.

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