Course Description

This course utilizes LEGO Education’s award-winning WeDo core sets to build upon students’ software and hardware skills. Students will explore, create, and share their discoveries and creations as they build, program, and modify projects. Students will also establish and build communication and collaboration skills as they work with their peers to deeply engage in topics of science, technology, engineering, and programming. Our lessons provide resources that will not only improve students’ skills in programming, but also in their confidence to ask scientific questions, define problems and design their processes and solutions. Lessons will present tasks for students to complete that are centered around a topic that will challenge students’ innovation, collaborative, software, and hardware skills. The language used for this course is a drag and drop coding block language very similar to the Scratch language created by MIT. 

Learning Objectives

Upon the successful completion of this course students will be able to:

1. Sequence and structure a program

2. Incorporate and modify sound in a program

3. Effectively build hardware centered around a program

4. Brainstorm innovative ideas to complete specific tasks

5. Modify software and hardware 

6. Create and manipulate loops

7. Recognize and utilize block-based programming

8. Effectively use parallel execution 

9. Initiate events via programming

10. Record and store data in a program

11. Identify and use accurate terminology in programming

12. Debug

List of Topics

• Main Programming

• Motion

• Sound

• Visual effects

• Parallel execution

• Communication

• Sequencing

• Loops

• Events

• Conditionals

• Debugging

• Hardware

• Values and Operators

• Variables

• Record and analyze data

• Functions