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Term 3 Computing…in Lockdown

Jan 202021

Here are some Computing and other activities for this term:

Keep learning, keep active and keep in touch!

Computing in Term 3

Term 3 units

Other Computing skills

j2e skills – try out these short videos to build your j2e skills
Internet Search Challenges
Typing.com
Use Scratch or Hour of Code to develop your programming skills.

Use Computing in other subjects

Create a Coggle mind map of your topic (See Y5T5 unit)
Create an animation using JIT5, Scratch, Gifpaint or an phone/tablet animation app – see Y4 animated story unit
Use j2e5 templates or visual tools to explore ideas in your topic or complete topic work set by your teachers.
Scratch project – we’ll be using Scratch in Term 4
Install Google Expeditions on a phone or tablet and explore places related to your topics

Other activities

Thinking starters – great for getting your brain going. Learning Zone leave a comment with your ideas.
Zooniverse – people-powered research – take part in real scientific research on a range of projects
#DoGoodFromHome!

20th January 2021
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Bebras competition 2020

Nov 102020

Go to the Bebras website
Select the age group then start
Make sure you check the answers so you can learn from your mistakes or your successes
If you have finished, choose one of the following:
1. Have a go at Lightbot
  1. To allow flash – click padlock, site settings, Flash – allow
2. j2code – LOGO or another j2code app
3. code.org

10th November 2020
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Y5 South America – Race across the world

Apr 032020

If you’re in Year 5, then watch Race across the world on BBC iPlayer to learn about South America.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000g6nt/race-across-the-world-series-2-episode-1

3rd April 2020
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Y5 Smoothie adverts

Mar 132020

Yo have already composed a piece of music in Garage Band in Music lessons for this project
Prepare an advert for your smoothie – script, action, props
Video in front of greenscreen
Find a backdrop picture
1. Tools – usage rights – marked for non-commercial use with modification
2. Email to me (greenscreen not on iPads yet…)
On iPad
1. Log into Google Drive
2. Download your video
In iMovie, add very short title screen and music, edit, share
1. In Google Drive find your music, open with, iMovie

13th March 2020
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Y56 LF: The power of procedures with variables

Dec 082019

Start a new project in LOGO
Copy this code (copy and paste)

reset
setpensize 5

to rect :h :w :x :y
pu setxy :x :y pd
repeat 2 [fd :h rt 90 fd :w rt 90]
end

Now you can draw any size rectangle anywhere on the page by typing:
- rect 30 60 100 -50
The first two numbers and the height and width
The second two numbers are the x-coordinate and y-coordinate
- The page goes from
  - -250 to 250 left to right
  - -250 to 250 bottom to top
MAke a picture out of rectnangles
** Add a colour variable to the procedure
** Add another variable, eg
- pensize
- angle (dn’t forget to change the angle back again)
- make it a parallelogram (one angle :ang, other angle (180 – :ang) )

Khan academy drawing activity using JavaScript

8th December 2019
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Y5 LF: Drawing a picture in LOGO

Nov 222019

Think of all the things you can draw in LOGO:

Lines = fd 50 or bk 50
Turns = rt 90 or lt 90 (or other angles)
Circles = circle 50
Squares = repeat 4 [fd 50 rt 90]
Shapes = repeat ? [fd 50 rt 360/?] (/ means divide; ? means number of sides)
Stars = repeat ? [fd 50 rt 360 /? -180] same as shapes but change the angles; ? bigger than 8
Spirals = see last post
Colours = colour “blue
Moving without drawing = pu setxy 100 100 pd
Shading = fill (fills the area you are in with the current colour)
Pen thickness = setpensize 5
Procedures = to newthing …instructions… end
Make/change variables = make “length 50
Use variables = fd :length
Increase variables = make “length :length + 1

Your task

Design and draw a picture with different elements (could doa uick sketch in j2e5).
Use as many skills from the list above as you can
You can copy and paste code from your previous projects
Lavel your code with comment lines starting with semi colon ; ,eg
- ;———-Wheel———–

Ideas

A car or vehicle
A robot
A house or building

22nd November 2019
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Y5 LF: Use variables to draw spirals

Nov 152019

Warm up

Read learning conversations, correct code
Typing

Recap

Following instructions….
Variables
360/:sides
setxy
Efficient code

Success steps

Follow instructions
Try to understand why it works
Debug by yourself
Tinker with your code
Copy and paste images to a j2e5 page

Let’s go: What is a spiral?

Start a new LOGO file
Type: reset setpensize 5
Save it as spiral
Lets set up two variables:
1. make “sides 4
2. make “length 30
Copy this code:
1. repeat 10
2. [
3. fd :length rt 360/:sides
4. ]
5. Play – it should just draw a square over itself a few times
  1. To make it a spiral, we need to make the length longer each time.
6. Put the following code at the end but before the ] bracket:
  1. make “length :length + 10
7. This should draw a spiral…if not, debug
Tinker: Try:
1. different values of “sides at the start
2. increase the repeat number
3. changing how much you add to “length in step 5.3
4. adding a new variable called “pen (make “pen 3) then add these lines in the repeat brackets:
  1. setpensize :pen
  2. make “pen :pen + 1
5. Right hand click each spiral and copy and paste it into a j2e5 page to show what spirals you have made.
6. Create a page with at least 6 spirals on

Finished?

In a new LOGO file, type this simple code, play it then tinker with it…

reset
repeat 250 [forward repcount rt 89]

15th November 2019
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Y5 LF:Use variables to draw different shapes

Nov 112019

Warm up

Check work from last week – have I left you a learning conversation? Can you fix/finish something? Ask if not sure.
Typing

Get started

1. Start a new LOGO page. Type:

reset
setpensize 5

3. Draw a square:

repeat 4 [fd 50 rt 90]

4. What do the numbers mean in this code? 4? 50? 90?

5. How could we change the numbers to get a different shape? A triange? A pentagon? A hexagon? Have a go and see what happens.

6. Type this code:

make “sides 6
repeat :sides [fd 50 rt 360/:sides]

7. sides is called a VARIABLE – we can change it to be any number.

8. Change the 6 to a 5 and play again. Try some different numbers.

9. Use this code to move to different places on the page:

pu setxy 100 100 pd

Numbers can be from -250 to 250 (0 0 is in the middle)

10. Can you make something like this picture – different shapes spread around the page?

11. Think carefully: for each shape, you need lines of code for

– move to a different place
– change the variable
– draw the shape

(You can copy and paste lines of code to save time typing)

11th November 2019
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Y5 Debugging in LOGO

Nov 022019

LOGO bug challenges

Go to My files – Shared files – st-marks-wilts-sch-ujk – LOGO debugging
Open logo bug challenge 1 – correct the code – you should get a spiral and a message when you press play
Repeat with logo bug challenges 2 and 3

Squares

Go to j2code – LOGO – level 3
Type this:

reset
setpensize 5

Type the following to draw a square.

repeat 4 [fd 50 rt 90]

Can you explain why this draws a square?
Change the code so that the suqare is:
- twice as big
- half the size
- has only three sides drawn, like this

Using variables

After setpensize 5, add a line (using return key)
Type this:

make “length 50

Now change your square code, swapping the fd number for :length

repeat 4 [fd :length rt 90]

Try changing the number in the make “length line of code
Now make you whole code look like this:

reset
setpensize 5
make “length 50
repeat 10
[
repeat 4 [fd :length rt 90]
make “length :length + 10
]

Can you explain it?
Play with it – try changing some numbers to make more squares, smaller differences
Challenge – can you make it do this just by changing the length starting number and how much it changes?

2nd November 2019
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Y456 Searching skills

Oct 042019

Questions

A fact
A picture
Three words to describe

Fill in this form to answer questions

Skills

3 Use the word kids or ks2 when searching
4 Use multiple key words to search
4 Know some trusted websites on a range of topics
5 Search for images marked for reuse
5 Use CTRL-F to find words on a page
5 Use Google search tools
5 Reference websites used
6 Use searching techniques:
- “” exact phrases
- * wildcard
- – to exclude.

4th October 2019
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