Lesson 3: Using Python
Using decomposition to alter a picture with the text-based programming language, Python.
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Lesson plan
Arrange the children in pairs and hand out a whiteboard and pen (one between two). Display the Presentation: Similarities and differences and ask the children to spot any similarities and differences. Explain that they need to decompose the code to determine how the differences affect the shape Logo will draw.
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Sway Grantham (@SwayGrantham) is a Primary School Teacher, a CAS Master Teacher and Specialist Leader in Education for Primary ICT. She also has a BCS Certificate in Computer Science Teaching (Primary). She has written several curricula and conducted research into the impact of 1:1 iPads in the classroom. Sway was invited as a ‘lead learner’ to attend the first ever Picademy becoming a Raspberry Pi Certified Teacher. Sway has also completed the Google Innovator Academy and been a Google Coach and Mentor.
Sway has created a free KS1 lesson answering the question ‘What is a Network?’ as well as a music inspired project to make seascapes through programming among many other Computing lessons.
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