Computing KS3: Overcoming failures

Computing KS3: Overcoming failures give students the opportunity to consolidate the learning from the first five lessons, revisit any shaky territory and experiment with combinations of inputs, outputs and different ways of coding the mBot. Students will look at some of the ways in which technology has failed in the past, and how engineers have worked to overcome those problems. They will look back over the hardware and software they have been using in the past five lessons and combine these skills to complete challenges.

This is a single lesson fromt he Computing KS3 unit. Computing KS3 is a computing and robotics education programme based on driverless car technologies. Students will develop their ability to code as well as their design thinking as they tackle smart city challenges.

Through a series of nine lessons, students will learn about aspects of making, programming and design thinking as they build and program their own robot cars. They will work in teams to tackle coding challenges based on the actual problems that engineers are faced with in designing autonomous vehicles. In a final design challenge, students will need to work on not only the technical aspects of driverless cars, but also how they can improve lives and create smarter and safer communities.

All lesson resources are found here: https://encounteredu.com/teachers/units/code-smart-11-14