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DT Challenge - 7/8 Python - Sport Micro:Bit

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Use Python to program a micro:bit for sport! Get excited about coding even if you have no experience. You'll use the Python language to write your own programs, and make interactive games and tools to improve your health.

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Coding a sentimental chatbot in Python

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Incorporating 11 tutorial videos and two informative lecture videos, this learning sequence explores natural language processing, a significant application of artificial intelligence. Teachers and students are led through the coding in Python of a chatbot, a conversational program capable of responding in varied ways to ...

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Earth rotation: night and day

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Watch an animation of the Earth rotating in space showing day and night, the equinox where locations on Earth experience close to equal hours of daytime and night-time (12 hours) and views of the Earth from above the North and South Poles. Turn an animated model of the Earth to explore how rotation is related to night and ...

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Wild ride: get a grip

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Investigate the role of friction in performance of bicycle tyres. Test how the type of tread affects grip and speed. Choose tyres best suited to track and weather conditions in a time trial. This learning object is one in a series of four objects.

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How to Use Scratch: Creating an interactive Holiday Card Activity

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Looking for a simple project to get you started in Scratch? Add characters, animate them, create and share your own interactive Holiday Card.

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How to Use Scratch: Adding Background Images

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Make your project come alive by adding a backdrop - anything from a stage to a snow scene or, just draw your own.

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How to Use Scratch: Adding Background Sounds

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Record and add your own background sound to your project or choose the sounds from the library like a rattle, a ripple or a pop!

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How to Use Scratch: Changing Colours of objects in Scratch

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Make the images and objects in your project change colour when they are clicked!

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How to Use Scratch: Changing the costume of your Sprite

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Make your Sprite look its best by learning how to change its costume.

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How to Use Scratch: Adding a Sprite

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So, you have your new project in Scratch - now it's time to add a Sprite!

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How to Use Scratch: Making Sprites interactive

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Make your Sprite jump, move, say something or change costume.

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How to Use Scratch: Making a Sprite say something

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You don't want a silent Sprite! Get your Sprite to talk by using the 'say' block.

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How to Use Scratch: Deleting the Cat Sprite

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A computer character is called a 'sprite'. Can you delete the cat sprite from your Scratch card?

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How to Use Scratch: Imagining your interactive Holiday Card

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Snowmen? Spooky Halloween ghosts? The Easter bilby? What images come to mind when you think of Holidays? Get some ideas for your Scratch Holiday Card

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How to Use Scratch: Making a Sprite Move

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Tell your Sprite where to go - get your Sprite to move in all different directions - left, right, up, down

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How 'binary information' is communicated via the internet

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Ever wondered how your photos, emails and messages get sent between devices? Watch as software engineer Tess Winlock explains what binary information is, and how it gets from one place to another. Can you explain what 'bits' are? How about 'bytes'? In the past, binary information was sent using physical systems like semaphore ...

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How to Use Scratch: Adding sounds to your Scratch project

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There are all sorts of sounds you could add to your Scratch project. Give your project that extra 'oomph' by adding sounds.

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Exploring inputs and outputs

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This is a unit for Year 4 from the Scope and sequence resources from the DT Hub. The topic of digital systems is organised into four key elements. Use this flow of activities to plan and assess students against the relevant achievement standards. Students explore inputs and outputs using a circuit board, electronic kit ...

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What are pixels?

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Meet Kevin Systrom and Piper Hanson as they explain how digital images work. What are pixels, those tiny dots of light, made from? How are colours created and represented? What does Kevin say about the way mathematical functions are used to create different image filters. What is the difference between image resolution ...

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How computers compute

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Watch as Jamie Teherani from MIT, demonstrates how a big, mechanical computer made from wood works. What does it have in common with the high-tech computers of today?

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