Our Year 1 and 2 learners have been very busy in our Exploration Station over the last few weeks. As well as creating videos and using a green screen we also looked at how we can get technology to do what we want using code.
While the learners were in the space we also talked about how computers need specific instructions to make sure they do the right thing. Mrs Lee showed us how computers can be a bit silly sometimes and they do something different to what we wanted them to do because we haven't given them the right instructions.
To help us think about this concept the learners created their own coding grids and then worked in pairs to be the computer or the coder giving the computer instructions. We coded our computers (plastic animals) to go on adventures through our coding grids. It was tough and we ended up in the learning pit because we had to really think about each step the computer needed to make.
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| Coding Grid |
Our Year 2 learners also went on to test our their coding skills using Scratch Junior (and iPad app). We started off by getting the scratch cat to move and managed to work that out pretty quickly.
Our learners were able to make the scratch characters move, talk and even change colour and disappear using the coding blocks in scratch. Scratch junior uses blocks to code rather than the arrows we used in our coding grids.
If you have an iPad at home you can download the Scratch Junior app here. You can also use the more advanced version of scratch on a Chromebook or another laptop/computer. Both versions are free.
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