Digital Skills for 6th Class

The senior year of the programme at fifty-three lessons: advanced game development, a digital creation lab, micro:bit innovation, electronics and light, a design-and-build project, websites and code, and online safety. Teacher-led from the board, and a good finish before post-primary coding.

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First Arcade Project	Quiz	Challenge
Monkey Mayhem	Quiz	Challenge
Space Shooter	Quiz	Challenge
Platform Place	Quiz	Challenge
Arcade Build Battles
Galaxy Ghosts	Quiz	Challenge
Donut Rush	Quiz	Challenge
Game Lab

Translate	Quiz	Challenge
Shark Swim	Quiz	Challenge
Autonomous Car	Quiz	Challenge
Pattern Creator	Quiz	Challenge
Attack of the Dots	Quiz	Challenge
Rocket Lander	Quiz	Challenge
Scratch Platformer	Quiz	Challenge
Build Battles

Exploring Microbits	Quiz
Microbit Sensor Graphs	Quiz	Challenge
Exactly 11	Quiz	Challenge
Microbit Bop It Game	Quiz	Challenge
Microbit Voting System	Quiz	Challenge
Microbit Paddle Ball	Quiz	Challenge
Microbit Zombies	Quiz	Challenge
Microbit Lab

Microbit LED Strip	Quiz	Challenge
Microbit LED Strip Thermometer	Quiz	Challenge
Shooting Stars	Quiz	Challenge
LED Flags	Quiz	Challenge
LED Stacking	Quiz	Challenge
LED Strip Precision Game	Quiz	Challenge
Microbit Lab

Build your Traffic Lights	Quiz
Microbit Traffic Lights	Quiz	Challenge
Traffic Light Reaction Game	Quiz	Challenge
Pedestrian Crossing	Quiz	Challenge
Build your Move Motor Sensor Car	Quiz	Challenge
Line Following Car	Quiz	Challenge
Autonomous Car	Quiz	Challenge
Tilt Remote Control Car	Quiz	Challenge
Traffic Lights and Car Communication	Quiz	Challenge

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

Pages That Respond
Plan Your Site and Build Its Shape
Make It Count
Ask Your Visitor Something
Build It, Show It, Then Type It
Build Your Own Site
Finish It and Show It
Write Some HTML Yourself

First Arcade Project	Quiz	Challenge
Monkey Mayhem	Quiz	Challenge
Space Shooter	Quiz	Challenge
Platform Place	Quiz	Challenge
Arcade Build Battles
Galaxy Ghosts	Quiz	Challenge
Donut Rush	Quiz	Challenge
Game Lab

Translate	Quiz	Challenge
Shark Swim	Quiz	Challenge
Autonomous Car	Quiz	Challenge
Pattern Creator	Quiz	Challenge
Attack of the Dots	Quiz	Challenge
Rocket Lander	Quiz	Challenge
Scratch Platformer	Quiz	Challenge
Build Battles

Exploring Microbits	Quiz
Microbit Sensor Graphs	Quiz	Challenge
Exactly 11	Quiz	Challenge
Microbit Bop It Game	Quiz	Challenge
Microbit Voting System	Quiz	Challenge
Microbit Paddle Ball	Quiz	Challenge
Microbit Zombies	Quiz	Challenge
Microbit Lab

Microbit LED Strip	Quiz	Challenge
Microbit LED Strip Thermometer	Quiz	Challenge
Shooting Stars	Quiz	Challenge
LED Flags	Quiz	Challenge
LED Stacking	Quiz	Challenge
LED Strip Precision Game	Quiz	Challenge
Microbit Lab

Build your Traffic Lights	Quiz
Microbit Traffic Lights	Quiz	Challenge
Traffic Light Reaction Game	Quiz	Challenge
Pedestrian Crossing	Quiz	Challenge
Build your Move Motor Sensor Car	Quiz	Challenge
Line Following Car	Quiz	Challenge
Autonomous Car	Quiz	Challenge
Tilt Remote Control Car	Quiz	Challenge
Traffic Lights and Car Communication	Quiz	Challenge

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

Pages That Respond
Plan Your Site and Build Its Shape
Make It Count
Ask Your Visitor Something
Build It, Show It, Then Type It
Build Your Own Site
Finish It and Show It
Write Some HTML Yourself

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Curriculum Mapping

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Coding Ireland Digital Skills Progression Framework (in-house)

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

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.