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Geocraft -Giant's Causeway

These resources consist of lesson plans, worksheets, Minecraft Maps (Raspberry Pi version) for the area around the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland, and some general how to guides. The guides take teachers through the steps to update a Raspberry Pi, and install one of the Giant's Causeway maps into the correct folder, so that students can use it as part of the activities detailed here. The Lesson Plans and supporting Worksheets detail a number of intermediate Python activities (nominally for four, one hour lessons but it may take longer depending on students’ abilities and prior knowledge) to introduce students to the concepts of Sequencing, Selection and Iteration, using Python to interact with the Minecraft world on a Raspberry Pi. The final lesson serves as an introduction to Python functions and how they work along with a supplementary worksheet which covers the same topic in more detail. The activities are specific to the map, which is a quarter scale model of two areas along the section of coast where the Giant's Causeway is located in Northern Ireland, produced by the Ordnance Survey. 

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Subject(s)Computing, Programming, Algorithmic Thinking
Age14-16
Published2010 to 2019
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Direct URLhttps://www.stem.org.uk/rxeacs

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