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Classroom ideas: Choose your own adventure (Years 3-6)

In Digital Technologies, students from Year 3 onwards should be planning and implementing projects that include branching (decision-making). Creating a ‘choose your own adventure’ story is an excellent way for students to design and implement a project that makes use of branching.

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Year band(s)	3-4, 5-6
Content type	Lesson ideas
Format	Document
Core and overarching concepts	Algorithms, Implementation (programming), Specification (decomposing problems), Impact and interactions, Computational thinking
Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s)	AC9TDI4P01 Define problems with given design criteria and by co-creating user stories AC9TDI4P02 Follow and describe algorithms involving sequencing, comparison operators (branching) and iteration AC9TDI4P03 Generate, communicate and compare designs AC9TDI4P04 Implement simple algorithms as visual programs involving control structures and input AC9TDI4P06 Use the core features of common digital tools to create, locate and communicate content, following agreed conventions AC9TDI4P07 Use the core features of common digital tools to share content, plan tasks, and collaborate, following agreed behaviours, supported by trusted adults AC9TDI6P02 Design algorithms involving multiple alternatives (branching) and iteration AC9TDI6P01 Define problems with given or co developed design criteria and by creating user stories AC9TDI6P03 Design a user interface for a digital system AC9TDI6P04 Generate, modify, communicate and evaluate designs AC9TDI6P05 Implement algorithms as visual programs involving control structures, variables and input AC9TDI6P07 Select and use appropriate digital tools effectively to create, locate and communicate content, applying common conventions AC9TDI6P08 Select and use appropriate digital tools effectively to share content online, plan tasks and collaborate on projects, demonstrating agreed behaviours
Keywords	Data collection, data representation, data interpretation, DTiF, dtif, DTIF, ACARA
Integrated, cross-curriculum, special needs	Literacy, Digital Literacy
Organisation	Australian Government Department of Education and Training
Copyright	Australian Government Department of Education and Training, CC BY 4.0