What can you make happen? Acknowledging materials from Lego Education which contributed to this lesson sequence

What can you make happen? Make a sound – when you hover over the number (T showing) you can change it to make a different sound.

What can you make happen? Keep a sound repeating forever

What can you make happen? Make the sound of whichever number has been entered in the display

Can you make each of the sounds by only pressing play once? This can be used by upper key stage 2 children to introduce the idea of a variable. Display the number for the first sound. In the repeat choose to add 1 to the number on the display. This will let you play whichever note is being displayed for each repeat. It is good to add a wait to space the sounds out a bit. Children may discover the dice which lets you display a random number – see next slide.

Did you try this?

What can you make happen? Display and play a random number.

What can you make happen? or Children can see that you can choose to use a keyboard press to make something happen. Putting the sound sensor under the timer will mean the computer will wait until it hears a noise to play a sound.

What can you make happen? Display a background

What can you make happen? As per slide 5 different backgrounds can be displayed.

What will happen? Introduce tilt sensor

How could we get it to show different pictures using the tilt sensor? How many different pictures can you get it to display? Children need to see that they can change the tilt sensor icon to different angles. They can then make a program where different tilts display different pictures.

What have we discovered so far? What else can you make happen with the tilt sensor? Children need to see that they can change the tilt sensor icon to different angles. Children use all of their knowledge to see what they can create prompted by these program blocks – although they could use any of the other blocks as well.

What will make it turn? Make a simple model powered by a motor to see if the children can identify the programming blocks that will make the motor turn.

Test the program

What will happen?

What will happen?

What will make the crocodile’s jaws close? or

Can you make the crocodile crunch on the food?

Can you make the crocodile crunch on the food? How can you make the crocodile keep crunching?

Can you use the tilt sensor to make the crocodile close and then open its mouth?

Can you make the crocodile close his jaws when something is in his mouth?

Can you make the crocodile close his jaws when something is in his mouth?

What can you make happen? Imagine the possibilities!