Lego Education
LEGO Education WeDo is a fantastic, easy-to-use Cross-Curricular tool that enables students to learn, construct and then bring their models to life using intuitive drag-and-drop software.
Lego WeDo can complement other subject areas and can be used for language building, literacy, numeracy and various engineering, design and technology-based subjects. At the same time students will develop and improve different communication, collaboration and team-building skills.
The Children have been learning to understand what algorithms are; how they are implemented as programs on digital devices; and that programs execute by following precise and unambiguous instructions. They are learning to create and debug simple programs
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Use logical reasoning to predict the behaviour of simple programs
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Design, write and debug programs that accomplish specific goals, including controlling or simulating physical systems; solve problems by decomposing them into smaller parts
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Use sequence, selection, and repetition in programs; work with variables and various forms of input and output.
How pupils benefit
Key skills:
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Designing and making
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Brainstorming to find creative alternative solutions
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Learn to communicate, share ideas and work together
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Programming, using software, designing and creating a working model
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Work with simple machines, gears, levers, pulleys, transmission of motion
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Measuring time and distance, adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, estimating, randomness, using variables
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Use feedback to adjust a programming system.