KS1 / FP What is a robot?
There is no single definition of a robot. This lesson helps learners find out what robots are and the sotrs of things they can do. Aims Describe what a robot is and identify examples of robots ...
Introducing HTML – or why websites look like
E.A.K. (Erase All Kittens) is a very bizarre online platform game that teaches children how to code in HTML and CSS by encouraging them to hack into the game’s levels to solve puzzles. The ...
Cubelets
Quite simply, the best bit of kit we have ever used for introducing children to the maker culture, control technology, robots, coding and the rest. Cubelets are horrifically expensive but ...
Digital Citizenship
Some practical ideas for covering this topic in the classroom taken from a really useful blog post by Sue Beckingham. Some of the activities are probably geared toward year 7 or older. However, ...
Introducing Dash and Dot
Dash and Dot are absolutely our favourite robots for use in a primary school. They are expensive but worth every penny and we have always bought them on eBay for approximately 50% of the RRP for ...
Start Unplugged: Coding in Early Years
Loved these ideas from MARCWITHERSEY who says: “This Spring Term I was invited to work with staff at Heymann School, Nottinghamshire, who were preparing for Science Technology project. My ...
Making a lego maze
There are so many steps involved in learning how to think like a programmer. For a beginner, what’s important is not the specifics of a language (called the syntax). Rather it’s better to ...
