Choose your Ozo adventure
Using Ozobots students use and develop unusual types of data: Redefining “What is data?”. This lesson idea was created by Ben Jucius.
Additional details
| Year band(s) | 5-6 |
|---|---|
| Content type | Lesson ideas |
| Format | Web page |
| Core and overarching concepts | Specification (decomposing problems), Computational thinking, Implementation (programming), Algorithms |
| Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s) |
AC9TDI6P05
Implement algorithms as visual programs involving control structures, variables and input |
| Technologies & Programming Languages | Robotics and drones |
| Keywords | Ozobot, Programming, Robots, Directional language, Ben Jucius, CSER, Computer Science Education Research Group |
| Integrated, cross-curriculum, special needs | STEM, English |
| Organisation | CSER |
| Copyright | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated. |
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