Hot or not?
This lesson sequence focuses on the incremental or Agile approach to development and encourages students to follow the evolution of a temperature conversion tool for a Food Technology teacher. It uses an Excel spreadsheet application as the prototyping tool.
Additional details
| Year band(s) | 9-10 |
|---|---|
| Content type | Lesson ideas |
| Format | Web page |
| Core and overarching concepts | Abstraction, Implementation (programming) |
| Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s) |
AC9TDI10P04
Define and decompose real-world problems with design criteria and by interviewing stakeholders to create user stories
AC9TDI10P07
Design and prototype the user experience of a digital system
AC9TDI10P08
Generate, modify, communicate and critically evaluate alternative designs |
| Keywords | Agile, Project management, RAD, Functional specifications, User stories, Problem-solving |
| Integrated, cross-curriculum, special needs | Design and Technologies |
| Organisation | ESA |
| Copyright | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated. |
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