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Lesson 3: Programming wearable technology

Programming a virtual micro:bit to flash using loop blocks.
A boy's hand holding a computer mouse

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

1. Recap and recall

Remind children of prior experience with block coding; this could have been in Year 2 with a piece of software like ScratchJr or in Year 3 with Scratch.

Show Presentation: What can you remember? and ask if the children can remember anything about this example of block code.

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