Classroom ideas: Choose your own adventure (Years 3-6)

In Digital Technologies, students from Year 3 onwards should be planning and implementing projects that include branching (decision-making). Creating a ‘choose your own adventure’ story is an excellent way for students to design and implement a project that makes use of branching.

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Year band(s) 3-4, 5-6
Content type Lesson ideas
Format Document
Core and overarching concepts Algorithms, Implementation (programming), Specification (decomposing problems), Impact and interactions, Computational thinking
Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s)
AC9TDI4P01   

Define problems with given design criteria and by co-creating user stories

AC9TDI4P02   

Follow and describe algorithms involving sequencing, comparison operators (branching) and iteration

AC9TDI4P03   

Generate, communicate and compare designs

AC9TDI4P04   

Implement simple algorithms as visual programs involving control structures and input

AC9TDI4P06   

Use the core features of common digital tools to create, locate and communicate content, following agreed conventions

AC9TDI4P07   

Use the core features of common digital tools to share content, plan tasks, and collaborate, following agreed behaviours, supported by trusted adults

AC9TDI6P02   

Design algorithms involving multiple alternatives (branching) and iteration

AC9TDI6P01   

Define problems with given or co developed design criteria and by creating user stories

AC9TDI6P03   

Design a user interface for a digital system

AC9TDI6P04   

Generate, modify, communicate and evaluate designs

AC9TDI6P05   

Implement algorithms as visual programs involving control structures, variables and input

AC9TDI6P07   

Select and use appropriate digital tools effectively to create, locate and communicate content, applying common conventions

AC9TDI6P08   

Select and use appropriate digital tools effectively to share content online, plan tasks and collaborate on projects, demonstrating agreed behaviours

Keywords Data collection, data representation, data interpretation, DTiF, dtif, DTIF, ACARA
Integrated, cross-curriculum, special needs Literacy, Digital Literacy
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Australian Government Department of Education and Training

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