Learning Objectives
Develop the Programming & Development, Algorithms Learning Strands:
- Assess how successful the program has been by using observations.
- Create a poster to show the advantages of Automated greenhouses.
Key Vocabulary
- micro:bit
- Microcontroller
- Program
- USB
- .hex
- Download/upload
- Copy and Paste
- Blocks
- LED
Starter Activity – Plant Observations
Write a brief description of your plants progress. try to include the following points in your description.
Upload your observations to Bourne to learn Silver.
- How much have the plants grown?
- What colour are the leaves?
- How wet is the soil/growing medium?
- Any other observations:
Evaluation
Write up an evaluation of your project. Try to include a couple of sentences for each point.
- My team worked well because…
- Write down all the processes and skills you have learned during this project…
- What could have been improved?
- What is the best thing about your greenhouse?
Posters
Now you have finished creating and evaluating your automated greenhouses you will need to create a poster advertising the benefits of automated greenhouses for growing plats/crops and the process for making an automated process.
Your poster should be informative, look good, and entice people to read it.
Think about:
- Is it easy to read?
- Is it informative?
- Is it obvious what the poster is about?
- Does it make good use of images and diagrams?
Simple examples of good layouts
In this lesson, you…
- Evaluated your progress
- Created a poster to promote the use of automated greenhouse
Next lesson, you will…
Badge it
Silver Badge
- Upload a screenshot of your plant observations and evaluation to Bourne to Learn.
Gold Badge
- Created a poster on the advantages of automated greenhouses and uploaded a screenshot to Bourne to Learn.
Platinum Badge
- Created an effective and well laid out poster on the advantages of automated greenhouses and uploaded a screenshot to Bourne to Learn.