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Climate Action Kit Workshop

Useful Classroom Slides for Educators

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Copy this slide deck over to your personal Google Drive

Create your own copy

How to use this�slide deck

Edit or modify the deck using the template slides as needed for your workshop.

Edit the slides

Use the slides to run a Climate Action Kit workshop in your classroom!

Run your workshop!

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How it Works

Use these slides for explaining to students what the Climate Action Kit is and how the workshop will work.

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Meet the�Climate Action Kit.

What is the Climate Action Kit?

With the Climate Action Kit, you’ll discover how we as humans affect the climate around us and all the opportunities we have to use technology to take climate action.

Using the parts in the kit and a micro:bit, you’ll build and code working prototypes of real-life climate action technology!

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Lesson Structure: �Big Idea

Lesson Topic

The Big Idea section of the Climate Action Kit Lesson is where you’ll be introduced to the lesson topic and climate action opportunity we’re learning about.

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Lesson Structure: �Take Action

Project Prototypes inspired by real-life technology

The Take Action section of the Climate Action Kit Lesson is where you’ll build and code a prototype project inspired by real-life technology!

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‘Use’ the provided code to understand how it works.

USE

Take Action: Coding Options

Based on your coding experience, you can choose different experience options for coding your project.

‘Modify’ parts of the provided code to build on your project.

MODIFY

‘Create’ a code program of your own from scratch.

CREATE

Use-Modify-Create is a research-backed learning progression that builds computational thinking skills in students and supports them on their way to becoming creators of technology.

Traditionally, the educator will guide learners through a series of steps:

Students will use an existing project. The project is chosen because it highlights a particular concept(s) you are teaching (e.g. loops, variables, conditional statements)
Students will make small adjustments to existing code to learn how said concepts work. Ideally, they will make one change at a time to see the direct impact it has on the output of their code. They may also complete small coding challenges to demonstrate their understanding.
Students make substantial changes and/or design their own project that satisfies specific success criteria.

The framework can more flexible than this, though! When used as a differentiation tool, students with prior knowledge might jump right into ‘Modify’ or ‘Create’. Because each option has its own tutorial, students can progress at their own pace with minimal support from the educator!

The path is flexible. You can spend more time using of modifying, depending on what you are confident with.

Research has show that UMC increase educator confidence with coding, student confidence, and student’s perception of ownership over projects/work.

Today, we’re going to be modifying the code of one of our favourite projects - the bee counter!

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Climate Action Kit Workshop Learning Objectives.

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Blank Slides

Use these slides for creating your own lesson slide deck.

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Title Slide

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Lesson Title

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Step-by-step coding tutorials means no experience required

Designed to support new learners

Every lesson lets students learn at their own pace through easy to follow building instructions and step-by-step coding tutorials. This supports differentiated learning for the best classroom outcomes.

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Built for empowering�Climate Action.

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Lesson Content Slide

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Connection to Real-World Careers

Our prototype contains the same parts as a real-life wind turbine and aims to mimic its behaviour.

Prototype Wind Turbine

Wind turbine technicians inspect, diagnose, adjust, repair, and maintain wind turbine equipment.

Wind Turbine Technician

Adjust content to align with your project of choice.

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Hardware Explanation Slides

Use these slides for helping students understand the various hardware parts of the Climate Action Kit.

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Robotic Components

1 x Breakout Board with Battery
1 x Moisture Sensor
1 x Touch Sensor
1 x Solar Sensor
1 x Sonar Sensor
1 x Line Sensor with Ball & Caster
1 x Rotary Dial
1 x LED Light
2 x Continuous Servo Motors
1 x Positional Servo Motor
1 x Water Pump & Tubing

Building Blocks

1 x Base Plate
4 x Long Frame Building Blocks
6 x Medium Frame Building Blocks
4 x Small Frame Building Blocks
4 x Thin Frame Building Blocks
2 x Circle Building Blocks
4 x Cube Connectors
8 x Corner Connectors
4 x Back-to-Back Connectors
8 x Component Backing Connectors

Additional Parts

2 x Long Cable Connectors
5 x Short Cable Connectors
2 x Cable Extenders
2 x Wheels
1 x USB Cable
1 x Building Block Removal Tool
1 x Package of Butterfly Clips

Kit Contents:

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Kit Tray Contents:

Robotic Components

Building Blocks

Additional Parts

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Breakout Board

Important Info

Cables are reversible and can be plugged in any direction.

Reversible Cables

The micro:bit is inserted into the edge connector slot on the Breakout Board, facing outward.

micro:bit

The sensors can be linked together in any order without any change to the code.

Daisy-Chain

The Breakout Board contains a rechargeable battery for powering projects.

Rechargeable Battery

The Breakout Board assembly acts as the brain, spine and heart of our projects. The micro:bit holds the code that tells our project what to do, the Breakout Board transmits that code out to the components, and the battery powers everything!

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Breakout Board

Ports & Wiring

Only connect ‘Sensor’ components here.

Only connect ‘Motor’ components here.

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Connecting Components to the Breakout Board

Match the symbol on the Component to the symbol on the Breakout Board.

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Smart Robotic Components

Input/Output Sensors�and Motors

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Smart Robotic Components

Explanations

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Smart Robotic Components

Explanations

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Important things to know about�Servo Motors

Look carefully at the Motor ports on the Breakout Board. You’ll notice they’re labelled ‘L’, ‘M’, and ‘R’. ��This stands for:

L = Left

M = Middle

R = Right

The ports correspond with the physical location of your Servo Motors in your project build.

This is especially important in vehicle projects.

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Important things to know about�Servo Motors

In MakeCode, you’ll need to ensure you’re programming the correct Servo Motor in your code.

This way, your code will be sent to the correct physical location where your Servo Motor is connected.

Always double check that your code block position = physical port location where your Servo Motor is connected on the Breakout Board.

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Building Blocks

Easy to build and compatible with LEGO®

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Building Blocks

Explanations

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Additional Parts

Explanations

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MakeCode Explanation Slides

Use these slides for explaining Microsoft Makecode and navigating Tutorials.

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For the best experience, pair your micro:bit right away by following the on-screen instructions.

Pairing your micro:bit

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Step-by-step�building & coding tutorial

Carefully read through each tutorial step!

Follow the tutorial to build & code your Climate Action Kit project.

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Look for the navigation buttons!

Click ‘Ok’, ‘Next’ or ‘Done’ to advance the tutorial.

Each tutorial will contain a variety of different sections including building, pairing your micro:bit, inquiry questions, challenges and more.

Click through each tutorial step once you have completed it to move onto the next step.

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Use your cursor to resize the tutorial step window if content is hidden.

Tips & Tricks

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Use the zoom in & zoom out buttons to change the view of your coding workspace.

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Click the “Tell me more!” dropdown for more information on that tutorial step.

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Refer to the Tutorial title bar to know how many steps you’ve completed in the tutorial.

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If you get stuck, use the “Hint” lightbulb button to reveal a preview of what your code should look like.

Tips & Tricks

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The Sensors and Motors drawer contain all of the various code blocks you’ll need for programming the robotic components and motors in the Climate Action Kit.

Coding Blocks