Digital Technologies Curriculum L5-6 Creating Digital Solutions

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Content Description

Define problems in terms of data and functional requirements, drawing on previously solved problems to identify similarities.
Design a user interface for a digital system, generating and considering alternative design ideas.
Design, modify and follow simple algorithms represented diagrammatically and in English, involving sequences of steps, branching, and iteration.
Develop digital solutions as simple visual programs.
Explain how student-developed solutions and existing information systems meet current and future community and sustainability needs.

Lesson Ideas

Online Resources

Rock, Paper, Scissors: this activity builds on the classic game of Rock, Paper, Scissors. Students start by playing the traditional game and then explore the context of computer modelling by viewing a model that uses the same rules. Students decode a computer program to learn basic concepts.Project GUTS

Posti: an online game to teach students about social media and interpreting friends’ posts. Students can go back and play the game multiple times and get to know the characters’ personalities.

Conditionals with cards: students learn about algorithms and conditional statements. Students explore circumstances when certain parts of programs should run and when they should not and determine whether a conditional is met based on criteria.Tinkersmith

The Muddy City – Minimal Spanning Trees: this lesson supports students to explore different types of networks and investigate ways to efficiently link objects in a network.CS Unplugged

Microwave Racing Video: this lesson is focused on human-computer interaction, usability and usability evaluation.Queen Mary University of London

The Emotion Machine Activity: this lesson introduces students to programming, instruction sequences and computational thinking. Queen Mary University of London