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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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

  • conditional statement

    A rule which states that something cannot happen until certain requirements are met.

  • program

    To write code based instructions for a computer to process.

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