Lesson 1: Invention design
Designing and using an electronic product by adapting existing code to achieve a desired result.
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Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
Before starting this unit, check that the children can recall:
A program is a set of instructions that a computer can run.
A micro:bit is a programmable device that uses a block coding language similar to Scratch.
A loop is a repeated sequence of instructions.
Variables are used to store and name pieces of information that are likely to change when the program runs.
There are text-based programming languages such as Logo and Python.
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