Virtual Reality and CoSpace

The Senior classes have been working on creating a scene with animals. The Junior school are doing a topic based theme about animals and the rain forest.

Once they had chosen their theme they researched some key facts about animals which they entered as information into their environment.  Adding animation, sound and movement through coding made their spaces interesting and appealing for a young audience to view.

Seeing their spaces come to live through the VR gave them a real buzz to see all of their hard work come to life.

Unplugged Junior Lesson

The fruit game

The children start with a piece of fruit in their hand and the idea is for them to pass them around the circle with their friends and try and get the other piece of fruit so they have a pair.

This involved them having to collaborate and co operate and come up with a system that worked. 

Lego Build

This involved giving clear and precise instructions to see if their partner was able to build the same object out of lego as them.  They learnt that sometimes what they thought was a clear instruction was not!  They began to understand that it was important to be precise with the size, colour and shape and the position that each lego needed to go.  We had mixed results but each time they got better.  They also needed to listen very well!

We could see where we went wrong and debugged.

This team had success and worked well together listening and following instructions.

Coding the Plushie

We looked at direction and finding the best algorithm to get the Robot Kid  to the plushie

We discovered that some of our instructions were not clear to follow

 It was easier when we used arrows and showed direction.