Learning objective

  • To explore a programming application.

Success criteria

  • I can identify that Scratch is a coding

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National curriculum

Computing

Pupils should be taught to:

  • Design,

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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

Pupils needing extra support:

Should explore one set of blocks and give verbal feedback (e.g. I used the change colour block and it made x happen); could rewatch the Pupil video: Tinkering with Scratch or view the Presentation: Tinkering with Scratch for further support.

Pupils working at greater depth:

Should be encouraged to use blocks from three different colour groups.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: explaining what happened when

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Vocabulary definitions

  • coding

    Writing instructions for a computer.

  • predict

    To make an educated guess as to what might happen or occur as a result of something in the future.

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Sway Grantham

Computing specialist

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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…
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