Dice

 LI: To see and understand the connection between the written code, the block code and the flow chart.  

This is the comparison between the Python coding, the blocks and the flowchart for making the Microbit act like a dice.

Link to DLO

Tech

 L.I To send messeges to other people.

The next activity today was coding the microbit to send a radio signal to another microbit. We had to make sure that both microbits were on the same group number so we didn't accidentally get a message from another group.

Tech

LI: To try and get the mBot to draw a star shape for Matariki

This week the year 8s of LS2 coded the mbots to drive in a star alligned path. To make the code we used different action codes (moving, wheels, etc). We used a code that allows the mbot to move forwards, left and right, and the seconds the mbot has to do the task at. We drew a star on a large piece of paper and we tested our mbot on the paper. After we have tested our first one we made changes to further improve our mbot code. 

Rock Paper Scissors

 

L.I To learn how to code the microbit to play rock paper sicsors and under stand how the flowchart matches the code.

Link to DLO

When I shake the microbit it will chose a random number beetween 1 and 3. I have to make a veriable called hand and set this to the random number. If The number is 1 - the microbit will show the simble of rock. If The number is 2 - the microbit will show the simble of paper. If The number is 3 - the microbit will show the simble of scissors.

Being A Jedi In Coding

L.I To code a mbot to move forword when nothing is there and to move backwards when you put your hand in front of it.

My robot will wait until i have pressed the onboard button before it does anything. We used an "IF - THEN - ELSE" block as this gives the robot two choices of things to do. We are using the ULTRASONIC  SENSORon the of the robot and we need to sense if something 10cm in front of it. IF something is 10cm or LESS in front of the robot , it will move backwards. IF something is NOT less han 10cm in the front of the robot, it wil move forwards (ELSE). This is all put into a forever block so that the robot constantly senses what is in front of it.

Tech Reflection

 LI: To identify what we know about science

Today for Tech we had science with Mrs sharma. First we got new booklets from Mrs  sharma.        and on our booklets we wrote what we think science is and if we have a question that we would say to a scientist then we got A3 paper. After that we folded our  A3 paper into quarters then we wrote the most science words we can write in 2 minutes . Then we drawed a picture of what we think scientists do there that we got photos of and we picked one each and after that we wrote about what the photo is about. 

Sagwala

L.I To follow the recipe to make sagwala.

Today for food technology we made a Sagwala dish first we got our medium bowl out and added the curry powder into the bowl then we gave our medium bowl to Miss Heka to get the rice. After that we got our measuring cups and measuring spoons. Then we put our tomato into one of the measuring cup and the other measuring cups were use  to add our yogurt then we added all of our ingredients. It was amazing and fun.

Food Technology/Hot cakes

L.I to follow a recipe to make hot cakes.

Today we followed Mrs Heka's instructions and made hotcakes. First we got all of our pots, pans, measuring cups. We also got all of our ingredients (Milk, eggs, flour, sugar, butter, berries, banana, ice cream), we put the dry ingredients together (sugar & flour) in a big bowl, we put the wet ingredients (eggs & milk) in a medium size bowl. We then put the milk & eggs mixture with the dry ingredients, we then mixed both with the banana, we then poured our mixture onto the pan and we put our pancakes in our lunch boxes, after that we made a berry sauce and we put that on our pancakes, we also put some scoops of ice cream with it. It was very fun to make and very delicous.

Food Technology

L.I To learn our knife skills.

Today in tech we were learning food technology with Mrs Heka at Tamaki Collage. We were learning our knife skills and we made a colourful fruit salad.The fruits we used were yellow and green kiwifruits,grapes and oranges. We had to remove the skin from the kiwifruit and cut the ends off. Next we had to segment the orange. We also learnt how to measure 1 cup of yoghert and how to wash the dishes. My favorite part at tech was chopping the fruit.

Tech

This week for tech we were learning  how to program the Mbots  . We were learning how to make sounds and colours on the mbots. Then we had to make the mbot sing happy birthday.We also had to make the colours in sync with the song so it would be cool.We had to record the Mbots changing colours so that we can put in the DLO that miss ferguson sent us.

Tech

For the first week of Tech we learnt about programming and algorithm. Algorithm is about giving instructions. We first started off with an activity in groups. We had one person who was the programmer and the others who were the robots. The programmer had to give out a set of instructions so the robots would be able to do it. We then got real robots and started learning the basics like programming & algorithm. On the programming website we got to learn how to get the robot flashing different colours. We also had DLOs about algorithm and programming. We had to write down the input which is the materials, then the algorithm which was the instructions, and then the output which is what happened