Resources
Session A: Circuits Revision
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these materials give children some some hands on experience and revision of what they already know about electricity and circuits through a circus of activities.
Can they complete and repair circuits? What dangers does electricity pose?
Session C: Circuit Repairs
Produced by the Hamilton Trust, these materials look at fixing faults in electric circuits. Children start the session with some drama before turning their attention to some circuits in need of attention.
Children repair broken circuits and identify repairs needed using circuit diagrams.
Session D: Circuit Investigations
This activity from Hamilton Trust, helps children investigate the properties of electric circuits. It provides a concept cartoon, which is a...
Session E: Series and Parallel
These materials, from the Hamilton Trust, challenge children to identify the differences between series and parallel circuits. They work in small groups to create circuits and switches.
Session Eight: Applying their Programming Knowledge to Play and Evaluate a Game Challenge
In this activity, children work in pairs to learn and set each other challenges using the Rapid Router software.
The challenges include the use of Loop, If and Repeat Until commands, asking children to consider how they can automate a process and create efficient code. The activities focus on driving a...
Session Eight: Assessment Session – Applying your Coding
In this, the final activity of a sequence of eight, children are asked to use their knowledge to create a challenge using Rapid Router, solvable using Python. It will ask their partner to use procedures, increment variables and apply different methods of control flow.
The resource includes an overview of...
Session Eight: Follow-On and Extension Work on Multiple Repeat Loops and Nested Repeats
Lesson 8 in a series of lessons using Rapid Router, the game-like environment for learning programming. This session takes loops and repetition further, and includes reusing statements and nested loops.
The resource includes wall displays, worksheets, model answers and assessment sheets.
Session Five: Create a More Complex Algorithm to Deliver One or More Packages on the Way
The 5th lesson in the Rapid Router series adds complexity to algorithms, raising the level of challenge and building on familiar contexts from earlier activities.
Also included are wall displays, teacher and peer assessment sheets, worksheets and model solutions.
Session Five: Extension Group Activity
This extension activity features in the upper-primary Blockly course, by the Rapid Router team at Code for Life. It explores the limits of generalised solutions, introducing children to the idea of algorithm testing and debugging. Children are asked to apply logical thinking to different problems, and analyse what...