Raspberry Pi

Lesson Aim

  • Know what a raspberry pi
  • Identify some uses of the raspberry pi

Starter

Introduce the Raspberry Pi and discuss some of its uses

Main

Your task is to create a presentation about the Raspberry Pi and include the following information:

  • Title Slide
  • What is Raspberry Pi?
  • Why it was created?
  • Some projects carried out with the Pi
  • What you would like to create with a Pi

Plenary

Discuss uses of a Pi and then what students would like to do with it. 

Python – Practical Task

Lesson Aim

  • Use python skills gained to create a program to produce a solution
  • Design and implement a python program

Starter

How do we design a program.  Identify the variables, create an algorith and then produce the program

Main Task

Create a program which requests the length of the Opposite and adjacent sides of a right angled triangle and the calculates the Hypotenuse using the pythagoras theorem.

Extension

Modify your program to allow calculation of the other two sides.

Plenary

Review how to design a program – identfy variables and then  produce code