Coding for health

 

Subject(s): Design and technology | Computing

Resources included: Educator notes, Presentation slides, Student sheet

Time: 60-90 minutes

Target age range: 11-14.

Put your students' coding skills to the test with this fun activity that asks them to explore user needs, identifying and understanding them in order to design, build and code an activity tracker from a micro:bit. Using Scratch, in this lesson students will design, code and debug a program that will enable the micro:bit to track their steps. Students will also hear how technology just like what they create is used by organisations like GSK, both in their business and as part of clinical trials.

Download resources: Educator notes, Presentation slides, Student sheet

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