Raspberry Pi - Coding and Programming
Added: 31 May 2016
Contributor:
Scoilnet
Resource type:
Guide/notes
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Reference
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Simulation
Why teach students Raspberry Pi? Don't let our technology confident modern generation of students suffer from growing up with low level skills in computer science. Let the barrier to content creation be broken down together, learn with your students and learn to love learning again. Raspberry Pi is a credit card computer whereby students can build games and roborts from using basic coding language (Python). Students won't initially know they are coding or using programming, but they will be interconnecting with the process of programme development. They will learn that coding and programming isn't as complicated as it sounds. Students will ask questions. They will learn through seeing, questioning, being inspired, through making things, through overcoming obstacles like levels in a computer game.
How it maps to the curriculum
- 5-6
- Mathematics
Strand: Data
Strand unit: Representing and interpreting data
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- compile and use simple data sets
- use data sets to solve problems
Suggestions for use: Use website to gain ideas from scheme of works, videos on getting started, lesson activities and projects. - Visualise sorting with Phyton. -sorting hats. -Physical computing with Scratch ...etc
- 5-6
- SESE Geography
Strand: Natural Environments
Strand unit: Weather, Climate & Atmosphere
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- record and display simple weather observations in systematic way using graphs, charts and common meteorological symbols
- use simple equipment to make detailed weather observations and recordings of phenomena
Suggestions for use: Use the scheme of work on "Sensing the Weather" to plan your lessons on recording weather observation data. Students will consider the importance of collecting weather data and how this can be done. They will connect some simple sensors, be introduced to the Python programming language, and learn some techniques to gather sensor data. By creating a simple weather station with Raspberry Pi, students will learn: How weather predictions are made, and the importance of data collection How to use GPIO pins How to create a simple circuit on a breadboard How to detect inputs from GPIO pins with Python code
