Learning objective
- To understand what a variable is and how to make one.
Success criteria
- I can use the
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National curriculum
Computing
Pupils should be taught to:
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Cross-curricular links
English
Spoken Language
Pupils should be taught
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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: could be reminded where to find the ‘ask’ and ‘answer’ block.
Pupils working at greater depth: should be encouraged to figure out how to join the answer with a phrase to make a single sentence using the clue of looking at the green blocks and emphasising the word ‘join’; should be encouraged to create different questions and think about ways to make sure responses are interesting for the player.
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Assessing progress and understanding
Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: understanding what a variable
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Vocabulary definitions
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conditional statement
A rule which states that something cannot happen until certain requirements are met.
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program
To write code based instructions for a computer to process.
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