How coding supports problem solving across your curriculum. Lisa Marshall (Harbour Primary and Nursery School) Michael Alger (Discovery Education)

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1 How coding supports problem solving across your curriculum Lisa Marshall (Harbour Primary and Nursery School) Michael Alger (Discovery Education)

2 Essential Questions What is Coding and why is it important? How do I prepare pupils to Code? How does Discovery Education Coding meet the needs of the curriculum? How can Coding be used to support learning across the curriculum?

3 Quality Assurance (QA), System analyst Careers in Coding? Security expert Teacher! Technical Support (Technician or Help Desk) Programmer or Software developer

4 Computing Purpose of study A high-quality computing education equips pupils to use computational thinking and creativity to understand and change the world. Computing has deep links with mathematics, science, and design and technology, and provides insights into both natural and artificial systems. The core of computing is computer science, in which pupils are taught the principles of information and computation, how digital systems work, and how to put this knowledge to use through programming. Building on this knowledge and understanding, pupils are equipped to use information technology to create programs, systems and a range of content. Computing also ensures that pupils become digitally literate able to use, and express themselves and develop their ideas through, information and communication technology at a level suitable for the future workplace and as active participants in a digital world.

5 Looking under the bonnet Using a range of devices, software and code creatively and practically helps students to not only understand how something works, but also why and to apply this understanding to new scenarios

6 What is Coding anyway? Move cup up one cup height Move cup down one cup height Move cup right by half a cup Move cup left by half a cup Rotate cup through 180 degrees anticlockwise Rotate cup through 180 degrees clockwise

7 What computing terms can we identify from this exercise? What other real life examples could you use to introduce Coding? And what s an Algorithm anyway?

8 Recipes Recipe: Algorithm Before you start to bake your cake you will normally start with a recipe, a set of instructions to explain what steps you need to take. An Algorithm is a set of steps to solve a problem, a recipe is a set of instructions to make a cake. Ingredients: Objects Your ingredients for the cake, the eggs, flour, milk are like the characters, buttons or 'objects' which you will eventually code instructions for. Cracking the eggs: Loop Often when baking cakes you will need to repeat a step multiple times, for instance if your recipe includes 3 eggs you will need to crack each egg. So you are repeating a set of instructions in a loop. Baking: Conditional events One of the most difficult parts in baking your cake is to decide when to take it out of the oven. Too soon and it will be undercooked. Too late and it will be burned. Conditional events mean you have to complete an action based upon a decision. If the cake is not cooked, leave it in the oven, if it is then take it out. The cake: Output In coding output is the information which is produced by a computer system for its user. When baking, the output is the cake. The wrong ingredients: Debugging Would you and your pupils be able to spot the wrong ingredients in a simple recipe? Your cake recipe could include a mistake or you may make an error when following your recipe, before baking the cake again you'd want to find out what the mistake was and correct it, the same as debugging. Debugging means to correct mistakes or problems in a computer program.

9 Balloon pop: What terms can you spot? 20secs 45secs

10 Key Stage 1 Pupils should be taught to: understand what algorithms are; how they are implemented as programs on digital devices; and that programs execute by following precise and unambiguous instructions create and debug simple programs use logical reasoning to predict the behaviour of simple programs use technology purposefully to create, organise, store, manipulate and retrieve digital content use technology safely and respectfully, keeping personal information private; know where to go for help and support when they have concerns about material on the internet recognise common uses of information technology beyond school

11 Key Stage 2 Pupils should be taught to: design, write and debug programs that accomplish specific goals, including controlling or simulating physical systems; solve problems by decomposing them into smaller parts use sequence, selection, and repetition in programs; work with variables and various forms of input and output use logical reasoning to explain how some simple algorithms work and to detect and correct errors in algorithms and programs understand computer networks including the internet; how they can provide multiple services, such as the world-wide web; and the opportunities they offer for communication and collaboration use search technologies effectively, appreciate how results are selected and ranked, and be discerning in evaluating digital content use technology safely, respectfully and responsibly; know a range of ways to report concerns and inappropriate behaviour select, use and combine a variety of software (including internet services) on a range of digital devices to accomplish given goals, including collecting, analysing, evaluating and presenting data and information.

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13 Problem Solving Recognise: the problem or challenge to be solved Analyse: breaking the problem down into its constituent parts and needs Design: designing the solution to the problem according to the analysis Implement: creating the program Test: making sure that the program works and fulfils the needs Evaluate: assessing how effective the solution has been along with any issues How does the Maze activity support this?

14 How does Discovery Education Coding support this? Save, share and celebrate!

15 Event Object - Action In Discovery Education Block coding this sequence is crucial to understanding the way the code is working. It helps with planning, creating code and with debugging

16 Event Object - Action In this Function bow we can now see that the Event is to click the Up Button, the Object is a Helicopter and the Action is that the Helicopter moves upwards

17 Event Object - Action What are the Events Objects Actions in the following?

18 Execute

19 Sequence

20 Variables What is a variable? The quiz... What is the name of the longest river in the world? Who was Henry VIII s fifth wife? What is 14 x 20? What was the name of the Chilean brothers who played for Newcastle United in the 1952 FA Cup Final?

21 Review of the session What is Coding and why is it important? How do I prepare pupils to Code? How does Discovery Education Coding meet the needs of the curriculum? How can Coding be used to support learning across the curriculum?