Learning Objective: Year 5/6 students will design and create a simple computer game using Scratch which involves decisions, repetitions and user input to make selections. Students will also describe digital systems as having internal and external components that perform different functions. 

 

General Capabilities: Information and Communication Technology (ICT): Students develop an understanding of the characteristics of data, digital systems, audiences, procedures and computational thinking. They also develop design ideas; generate plans and diagrams to communicate their designs and produce solutions using digital technologies

 

Critical and Creative Thinking: Students develop capability in critical and creative thinking as they imagine, generate, develop and critically evaluate ideas. Experimenting, drawing, modelling, designing and working with digital tools, equipment and software helps students to build their visual and spatial thinking and to create solutions.

 

Differentiation:

•Teacher to select partners so that more capable students can scaffold their peers

•Spend extra time scaffolding those students who need extra assistance

•Provide established scripts for those students who are stuck so they can just add an additional movements or edit the established script

•Extend the advanced students by requiring them to have different levels in their games, or to add sound to their games 

 

There are 2 resources in this package. The first is teacher notes and lesson activities which provide lesson plans leading up to the assessment task. The second is the student work book which contains design templates, evaluation pages and a rubric