Term 2 | Discovering the Micro:bit
Overview
This term focuses on a combination of coding and money skills with fun exciting projects. It then introduces Micro:bit in time for our festive coding activity.
Money catch
Control a dinosaur sprite to catch falling coins, earning or losing money for each successful catch. Students will learn how to use loops, conditional logic, and variables to program interactive gameplay.
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Blooming budget
Create a functioning garden centre and learn about wants, needs and how to budget. This project brings elements of maths and coding together, you'll use variables to track spend and if else statements to track items being bought.
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Money mission - bus edition
Code a moving bus that follows the mouse pointer along a road. This project develops key programming concepts, especially selection, variables, and sensing, while linking them to money choices in real life.
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Micro:bit introduction
A basic introduction to coding with the Micro:bit MakeCode editor.
Micro:bit deck the halls
'Tis the season to be jolly! It’s that time of year again, so let’s introduce some festive music into your Micro:bit coding!
Code along to create the melody of the classic Christmas carol, ‘Deck the halls’.
