ONLINE LEARNING AND DATA COLLECTION WITH THE MICROBIT
Data Collection
Microbit.org has provided a great resource for using the Microbit for data collection. They have an excellent introduction, complete with video tutorial and sample code, for Data Collection, and a number of suggested experiments involving collecting data. Each experiment has an Overview, Setup, and Procedure section - again with video tutorials and sample code. The experiment topics are: Population Traits, Temperature, Soil Moisture, Gravity, Motion and Waves, Body, Electrical and Waves, Electricity, and Rocket Acceleration. Material needs are minimal, usually a microbit, batteries, cable, copper wire, and access to a spreadsheet program for data analysis. Some of the experiments make use of two Microbits and the Radio code blocks that allow Microbits to communicate with one another.
The overview is here (there are links to all the experiments in a sidebar):
https://makecode.microbit.org/courses/ucp-science/data-collection
Online Learning
Microbit has also developed a synchronous online classroom environment for teaching coding using the Microbit. You can use either MakeCode (a Scratch-like language) or Python. And, since the environment includes a virtual simulation of the Microbit, students don't have to have a Microbit to participate. Here's a link to a SparkFun Webinar on the topic. It's a 40 minute session and the instructor is a former Middle School teacher. Discussion of the Microbit and the online environment starts about 15 minutes in, but it's well worth watching the whole clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GPkEk-RkWQ
The Microbit classroom site is here: https://classroom.microbit.org. You may also want to take a look at this site, which has a great collection of lessons using the Microbit: https://microbit.org/lessons/
From my website: https://k-12computationalthinking.blogspot.com/
Microbit.org has provided a great resource for using the Microbit for data collection. They have an excellent introduction, complete with video tutorial and sample code, for Data Collection, and a number of suggested experiments involving collecting data. Each experiment has an Overview, Setup, and Procedure section - again with video tutorials and sample code. The experiment topics are: Population Traits, Temperature, Soil Moisture, Gravity, Motion and Waves, Body, Electrical and Waves, Electricity, and Rocket Acceleration. Material needs are minimal, usually a microbit, batteries, cable, copper wire, and access to a spreadsheet program for data analysis. Some of the experiments make use of two Microbits and the Radio code blocks that allow Microbits to communicate with one another.
The overview is here (there are links to all the experiments in a sidebar):
https://makecode.microbit.org/courses/ucp-science/data-collection
Online Learning
Microbit has also developed a synchronous online classroom environment for teaching coding using the Microbit. You can use either MakeCode (a Scratch-like language) or Python. And, since the environment includes a virtual simulation of the Microbit, students don't have to have a Microbit to participate. Here's a link to a SparkFun Webinar on the topic. It's a 40 minute session and the instructor is a former Middle School teacher. Discussion of the Microbit and the online environment starts about 15 minutes in, but it's well worth watching the whole clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GPkEk-RkWQ
The Microbit classroom site is here: https://classroom.microbit.org. You may also want to take a look at this site, which has a great collection of lessons using the Microbit: https://microbit.org/lessons/
From my website: https://k-12computationalthinking.blogspot.com/
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