Digital world: Wearable technology
Designing a new piece of light-up wearable technology with flashing LEDs that responds to a light sensor.
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Digital world: Wearable technology
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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Discuss some key developments in lighting technology and why they help us.
- Describe the form and function of a wearable product.
- Identify who the product is for and why they might use it.
- Create design criteria that list what the product must do or be like.
- Use the words program, code and control to describe how their product would work.
- Use code to control LEDs, including the use of the light sensor.
- Test and explain whether my code works as I want it to.
- Use computer-aided design to show design ideas for a product.
- Label the key features of the product.
- Describe the choices I have made to make my product more successful.
Keep the sketches and the class design criteria created in Lesson 2: Developing design criteria for use in Lesson 5: Communicating ideas using computer-aided design.
Keep the printed Resource: Pictures of light-up wearable technology from Lesson 1: Analysing wearable technology for children to refer to during Lesson 5: Communicating ideas using computer-aided design.
Suggested prior learning
This is the first unit in the Digital world strand so there is no specific prior learning.Lessons
Lesson 1: Analysing wearable technology
Lesson 2: Developing design criteria
Lesson 3: Using code to control LEDs
Lesson 4: Programming the light sensor
Lesson 5: Communicating ideas using computer-aided design
Key skills
Key knowledge
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)
Full equipment list for the subject
Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
- Paper ×10
- Lined paper ×30
- Flipchart ×1
- Devices with internet access ×30
The equipment below is optional
- Colouring pencils ×30
- Usb cables ×15
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Equipment list
Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
- Paper ×10
- Lined paper ×30
- Flipchart ×1
- Devices with internet access ×30
The equipment below is optional
- Colouring pencils ×30
- Usb cables ×15
-
BBC micro:bits with battery packs if using tablets and micro USB cables if using laptops
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser – D&T Y3: Digital world: Wearable technology
Aimed at pupils, two pages giving key facts and definitions from the unit ‘Wearable technology’.
Vocabulary display– D&T Y3: Digital world: Wearable technology
A display version of the vocabulary from the unit 'Wearable technology'.
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