Planet Hopping with Space Robotics!

This half term in Digital EDGE, we are exploring the exciting world of astronauts and space exploration together with the Scratch Jnr app to learn programming skills. To build a foundation for understanding algorithms and coding, we practised planning and giving instructions with a fun and interactive activity. 

In pairs, one child took on the role of the programmer, and the other became the robot spacecraft. Using hoops to represent planets, which we set up in the dining room, the children had to navigate their robot spacecraft from one planet (hoop) to another. This required them to carefully plan the instructions—also known as algorithms—that their spacecraft needed to follow.”