Interactive National Day – SCOPES-DF
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Lesson Details

Subjects *
Engineering, Unplugged
Age Ranges *
11-14
Fab Tools *
computer, Programming, Micro-Bit
Standards
Fab-Programming.1, Fab-Electronics.1
Author
Studio 5
Additional Contributors
Zaid Abusini, Ilaria La Manna

Author

Studio 5
Studio 5
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Summary

On-site session aims to introduce and celebrate the national day of Qatar in a funny interactive way, Participant will also be introduced to the Micro-Bit microcontroller in order to be introduced to coding in order to code gestures on the board.

What You'll Need

This session needs the following equipment’s:

1- Login computer

2-Micro-Bit microcontroller board

3- Make code (Micro-Bit) Platform

The Instructions

Introduction

We will start by introducing the history of the National Day of Qatar and the rise of the state, Also we will consider why Qatar has changed its celebration from September the 3rd to December 18th.

1- We will start by an ice braking question about the National day of Qatar.

  • When Qatar has its independence?
  • When Qatar changed its celebration date from September to December.

 

 

 

2- Then explaining the history behind December 18 and the reason for making this day the National day of Qatar.

 

3- Then participant will watch a video shows Qatar and its celebrations in the national day in addition to the tourist places Qatar have.

 

 

Video Link

National Day of Qatar 2021

In this step we will go through the slogan of this year and the way of celebrations, therefore we get to know how participant do celebrate in this day and how they wish to celebrate in the future in addition to the technologies used by the government in the celebrations.

1- We will ask about this year slogan, as each year the slogan do changes according to the struggles and to the achievements.

 

 

2- Then we will go through the slogan, and it’s meaning.

As this year slogan is “ANCESTRAL MEADOWS: A MATTER OF TRUST“, this slogan means that the lands of grandfathers should be protected as they have raised these lands for us, so we have to take care of it, so it’s a matter of trust for us.

 

3- Then we will ask participant about “How they celebrate in the National day”

 

 

4- Then we will show the previous celebrations and the technologies been used in.

 

 

Video Link

5- Then we will ask participant how they wish to celebrate in the future and the technologies used in these celebrations.

 

What we will be doing

In this step we will be making a message to be coded using the Micro-Bit board in order to code one letter for each board and then to be presented in a group.

1-     We will show the participant what we will be doing today, as we will be writing “I love Qatar”

 

 

2-     Then we will show participant what is the microcontroller we will be using and the available modules within the board.

 

3-     Then we will ask about what they know about the microcontroller and for what its used.

 

 

4-     Then we will explain the microcontroller to them and how it works and the uses of the microcontroller, also we will show the similarities between the microcontroller and the computers.

                                                 

5-     Then we will discuss the meaning of coding with the participant and what codes are used for.

6-     Then we will show the types of coding to the participant.

7-     Then we will ask participant about a life without coding.

 

Practice (Coding)

In this step we will show the participant the codes we will be using in order to code the board and the Step- By – Step instructions.

 

1-     We will show the whole code to the participant so they have a side regarding the needed instructions for their code.

–         As we will be using the On-Start loop and we will be building a function to show the Letter on the board and also to clear the screen.

–         On the (On-Start) Loop we will set the Radio group and we will also create a variable to store the brightness of the LED’s in order to be used in the function to dim the LED’s.

–         Then we will ask each participant to choose a letter from “I Love Qatar”.