Programming with Arduinos 1

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Year 7-10 students work towards creating a dexterity game with the use of LEDs, LDRs, potentiometers and an Arduino Uno.

Students engage in hands-on STEM education to develop 21st Century skills. They will exercise problem-solving skills whilst programming and working with electronic circuits to solve problems related to real-world applications.

A visual programming language; Snap4Arduino is used throughout the day. This program targets students from Year 7 to 10 with no prior programming and electronics knowledge needed.

Programming with Arduinos Online Module

This portal module guides students through a basic understanding of electricity, electric/electronic circuits and components and circuit theory. The activities in the module make use of simulated electrical laboratories.

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Curriculum Audit

Level 7
- Critical and Creative Thinking
  - Meta-cognition
    
    Consider how problems can be segmented into discrete stages, new knowledge synthesised during problem-solving and criteria used to assess emerging ideas and proposals (VCCCTM042)
- Digital Technologies
  - Creating Digital Solutions
    
    Design the user experience of a digital system, generating, evaluating and communicating alternative designs (VCDTCD041)
    
    Design algorithms represented diagrammatically and in English, and trace algorithms to predict output for a given input and to identify errors (VCDTCD042)
    
    Develop and modify programs with user interfaces involving branching, iteration and functions using a general-purpose programming language (VCDTCD043)
- Mathematics
  - Number and Algebra
    
    Number and Place Value
    
    Compare, order, add and subtract integers (VCMNA241)
    
    Real Numbers
    
    Round decimals to a specified number of decimal places (VCMNA246)
- Science
  - Science Inquiry Skills
    
    Communicating
    
    Communicate ideas, findings and solutions to problems including identifying impacts and limitations of conclusions and using appropriate scientific language and representations (VCSIS113)
Level 8
- Critical and Creative Thinking
  - Meta-cognition
    
    Consider how problems can be segmented into discrete stages, new knowledge synthesised during problem-solving and criteria used to assess emerging ideas and proposals (VCCCTM042)
- Digital Technologies
  - Creating Digital Solutions
    
    Design the user experience of a digital system, generating, evaluating and communicating alternative designs (VCDTCD041)
    
    Design algorithms represented diagrammatically and in English, and trace algorithms to predict output for a given input and to identify errors (VCDTCD042)
    
    Develop and modify programs with user interfaces involving branching, iteration and functions using a general-purpose programming language (VCDTCD043)
- Mathematics
  - Number and Algebra
    
    Number and Place Value
    
    Carry out the four operations with rational numbers and integers, using efficient mental and written strategies and appropriate digital technologies and make estimates for these computations (VCMNA273)
- Science
  - Science Inquiry Skills
    
    Communicating
    
    Communicate ideas, findings and solutions to problems including identifying impacts and limitations of conclusions and using appropriate scientific language and representations (VCSIS113)
Level 9
- Digital Technologies
  - Creating Digital Solutions
    
    Design the user experience of a digital system, evaluating alternative designs against criteria including functionality, accessibility, usability and aesthetics (VCDTCD051)
    
    Design algorithms represented diagrammatically and in structured English and validate algorithms and programs through tracing and test cases (VCDTCD052)
- Science
  - Science Understanding
    
    Physical Sciences
    
    Electric circuits can be designed for diverse purposes using different components; the operation of circuits can be explained by the concepts of voltage and current (VCSSU130)
Level 10
- Digital Technologies
  - Creating Digital Solutions
    
    Design the user experience of a digital system, evaluating alternative designs against criteria including functionality, accessibility, usability and aesthetics (VCDTCD051)
    
    Design algorithms represented diagrammatically and in structured English and validate algorithms and programs through tracing and test cases (VCDTCD052)
- Science
  - Science Understanding
    
    Physical Sciences
    
    Electric circuits can be designed for diverse purposes using different components; the operation of circuits can be explained by the concepts of voltage and current (VCSSU130)

Audience

Student learning

Learning Areas

Critical and Creative Thinking Digital Technologies Mathematics Science

Year Levels

Level 7 Level 8 Level 9 Level 10

Programming with Arduinos 1 - Secondary 7-10

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