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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Evaluate code, understand what it does and adapt existing code for a specific purpose.
- Debug programs and make them more efficient using sequence, selection, repetition or variables.
- Design appropriate housing for their product using CAD software, including any input or output devices needed to make it work.
- Create an appealing website for their product aimed at their target audience, which explains what their product is and what it does using persuasive language.
- Create an edited video of their project, articulating the key benefits.
- Describe and show how to search for information online and be aware of the accuracy of the results presented.
Suggested prior learning
ARCHIVED Year 6: Creating media: History of computers
If your school does not have access to Google, there is also a Microsoft version of this unit.
Lessons
Lesson 1: Invention design
Lesson 2: Coding and debugging
Lesson 3: Computer Aided Design (CAD)
Lesson 4: My product’s website
Lesson 5: Video advert
Key skills
- Using past experiences to
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Key knowledge
- To know:
- What designing an
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Key vocabulary
abstraction
adapt
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Equipment list
Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.
This list does not include equipment which is usually readily available in the classroom (e.g pencils, A4 paper etc)
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Full equipment list for the subject
Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
- BBC micro:bit ×15
- If you have no access to BBC micro:bits then use the online emulator available on the website (makecode.microbit.org). ×15
- TinkerCAD ×1
- Google As needed
- Microsoft As needed
- Video software
- MakeCode
- Devices with internet access ×15
- BBC micro:bits and battery packs. ×15
- Micro USB cables if you’re using laptops ×15
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser – Computing Y6: Inventing a product
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit "Skills showcase: Inventing a product".
Vocabulary display – Computing Y6: Skills showcase: Inventing a product
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Skills showcase: Inventing a product unit.
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Cross-curricular opportunities
Design and Technology – use research and develop design criteria to inform the design of innovative, functional, appealing products.; apply understanding of computing to program, monitor and control products; and generate, develop, model and communicate their ideas.
English: Writing – Composition. Identifying audience and purpose and selecting appropriate grammar and vocabulary.
