Learning objective

  • To understand what pattern recognition and abstraction mean.

Success criteria

  • I know how to recognise patterns.
  • I can use

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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

Recap and recall

Display the Presentation: 3, 2, 1 and hand out whiteboards and pens (one each).

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Should be supported to add new costumes to the existing animal sprite and change one or two of the broadcast received blocks to reflect the new costumes and words.

Pupils working at greater depth 

Should alter the animal and the food; could write down some examples of abstraction in everyday life (e.g. reading maps).

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: understanding the terms pattern recognition and

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Vocabulary definitions

  • abstraction

    Identifying the important detail and ignoring irrelevant information.

  • code

    A set of instructions written in programming language to tell a computer what to do.

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Cat Lamin

Computing specialist

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Cat is a former primary school teacher with 12 years of teaching experience. She has a passion for coding and computer science and specialises in supporting teachers who are getting started on their journey into using technology in the classroom. In 2017 she…
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