Crumble Coding Workshop
Tech4Fun
Bring coding to life with these fantastic Crumble workshops;Light it up ' explore coding and sequencing of lights
Make it move ' create an autonomous vehicle
Animate it ' simple mechanisms to create a moving character
Sense it ' investigate how sensors work
These workshops allow students to investigate how everyday things around us work and how they are controlled. The Crumble controller is an easily programmable microcontroller, using its own block-based coding language based on Scratch. It allows students to bring their coding to life by controlling Lights, servos, motors and sensors. Students learn about electricity and connecting circuits as well as programming.
The workshops are a great way of developing a students interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths (STEAM) education. The activities are mapped to the National curriculum and fulfil Ofsted criteria for Computing and D&T.
Where we travel to
We can visit your school in: All UK Regions
What activities are available during this school workshop?
The coding workshops are based around 4 themes: Light it up - This session involves the coding and sequencing of emergency vehicle lights, students get to design and make their own emergency vehicle and program the lights.
Animate it - In this session students get creative, they could animate an animal or character from their favourite book or recreate a scene from history. Explore how levers and simple mechanisms can be used to create movement.
Sense it - In this session, students investigate how sensors are used as an input. Students can experiment with various outputs such as buzzers, lights and motor control.
Make it Move: In this session students design and build their own autonomous vehicle which they have to program to manoeuvre around a series of obstacles.
each theme is designed to last half a day or can be combined to requirements over a full day.
All materials are provided.
Animate it - In this session students get creative, they could animate an animal or character from their favourite book or recreate a scene from history. Explore how levers and simple mechanisms can be used to create movement.
Sense it - In this session, students investigate how sensors are used as an input. Students can experiment with various outputs such as buzzers, lights and motor control.
Make it Move: In this session students design and build their own autonomous vehicle which they have to program to manoeuvre around a series of obstacles.
each theme is designed to last half a day or can be combined to requirements over a full day.
All materials are provided.
Which curriculum topics do we cater for?
Computing Workshop
Links to the curriculum KS2: Design, write and debug programs that accomplish specific goals, including controlling or simulating physical systems; Solve problems by decomposing them into smaller parts; Use sequence and repetition in programs; work with various forms of input and output.
Design Technology
>Engineering
What size groups do we cater for?
Group sizes are based around 30 students working in pairs.
Groups with Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND)
Yes, workshops are designed to be all-inclusive, please contact me to discuss requirements.
Yes, workshops are designed to be all-inclusive, please contact me to discuss requirements.
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Anything else?
The workshop requires computer access and a free to download program would need to be installed, happy to talk to your network managers about this.
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