Year 9 Robotics

Students will develop computational thinking skills in learning to control a robotics car and to extend it using sensors and a block programming language.

Learning Content:

Students will learn to use MakeCode programming language to program a MicroBit computer inserted in a Maqueen robot car.

Students will demonstrate the ability to apply:

• Project and self-management skills to work and meet deadlines;

• Innovative problem-solving and design thinking skills to generate and test ideas;

• A range of tools and techniques across a variety of software to design and develop digital outcomes;

• Computational thinking skills to plan and construct a basic computer program using MakeCode;

• Critical and creative thinking skills to evaluate their own and other’s digital outcomes.