Digital Skills for 6th Class

What your school gets

Everything a teacher needs to teach Digital Skills for 6th Class this year.

In class

64 lessons, ready to teach Each one planned step by step, taught from the interactive whiteboard. 1 interactive activity across the course.
Quizzes and assessments A short quiz with 50 of the lessons.
Try the first lesson: Introduction to Coding

On paper

Teacher Resource BookThe whole course laid out for the teacher, lesson by lesson, ready to print.
The sample lesson's pages

The whole books come with the course, in each class's Resources.

For planning

Yearly plan See the first two pages
Fortnightly schemes See the first two pages
Progression coverage See the first two pages
Programme progression See the first two pages

Included with the course, in English and in Irish. Teachers find them in their class's Resources.

The curriculum it covers

Every lesson is mapped to the specification. This course teaches 11 of the 12 outcomes for this class.

Coding Ireland Digital Skills Progression Framework (in-house)

Computational thinking 1 of 2 outcomes

Programming 3 of 3 outcomes

Digital creativity 2 of 2 outcomes

Robotics and physical computing 1 of 1 outcome

Staying safe online 2 of 2 outcomes

Digital literacy and media 2 of 2 outcomes

See every outcome

Curriculum Area

Outcomes

Computational thinking

DCT.4.1 DCT.4.2

Programming

DPR.4.1 DPR.4.2 DPR.4.3

Digital creativity

DCR.4.1 DCR.4.2

Robotics and physical computing

DPC.4.1

Staying safe online

DOS.4.1 DOS.4.2

Digital literacy and media

DDL.4.1 DDL.4.2

Tap any outcome to read it. The coloured ones are taught in this course. The curriculum does not include official reference codes for individual learning outcomes, so we have assigned a code scheme to make it easier to identify and track coverage.

The course, module by module

64 lessons in 9 modules. The lesson marked Sample opens in full.

1 Introduction to Coding 4 lessons · about 2 hours

What is Coding?
1 Introduction to Coding Sample lesson Quiz
2 Scratch Tutorial Quiz
3 Create your Scratch account
Coding your first project
4 Paddle Ball Game Quiz

2 Advanced Game Development 8 lessons · about 8 hours

3 Digital Creation Lab 8 lessons · about 8 hours

4 Microbit Innovators 8 lessons · about 8 hours

5 Exploring Electronics and Light 7 lessons · about 7 hours

6 Designing and Building for the Future 9 lessons · about 8 hours

36 Build your Traffic Lights Quiz
37 Microbit Traffic Lights Quiz
38 Traffic Light Reaction Game Quiz
39 Pedestrian Crossing Quiz
40 Build your Move Motor Sensor Car Quiz
41 Line Following Car Quiz
42 Autonomous Car Quiz
43 Tilt Remote Control Car Quiz
44 Traffic Lights and Car Communication Quiz

7 Cyber Safety 8 lessons · about 5 hours

45 Staying Safe Online
46 What is Personal Information? Quiz
47 Don’t Share Personal Information Online Quiz
48 Stranger Danger Online Quiz
49 Strong vs. Weak Passwords Quiz
50 Keep Your Passwords Private Quiz
51 Scams, Tricks & Pop-Ups Quiz
52 Digital Footprint: Think Before You Post Quiz

8 Websites and Code 6 lessons · about 6 hours

9 Discovering Artificial Intelligence 6 lessons · about 5 hours

59 An Introduction to AI Models Quiz
60 Create an Image Model Quiz
61 Scratch AI Rock, Paper, Scissors Game Quiz
62 Create a Pose Model Quiz
63 Scratch AI Pose Space Game Quiz
64 Crafting Your Own AI Project

What pupils learn

The senior year of the programme at sixty-four lessons: an introduction to coding, advanced game development, a digital creation lab, micro:bit innovation, electronics and light, a design-and-build project, online safety, websites and code, and artificial intelligence. The introduction to coding is the same topic 4th Class opens with, and the artificial intelligence topic the same one 5th Class uses, so a class that did either already can skip it. Teacher-led from the board, and a good finish before post-primary coding.

What you'll need

Used in some of the lessons. Students can share in groups of two or three.

Chromebook/Laptop/PC iPad/Tablet Microbit LED Strip with crocodile clips Move Motor Car Phillips Screwdriver Traffic Lights Kit Webcam/camera