Digital Flag - SCOPES Digital Fabrication
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Lesson Details

Subjects
History, Technology, Unplugged
Age Ranges
5-8
Fab Tools
electronics, Arduino, Breadboarding, Computer, Programming, TinkerCAD, Digital Arduino, Block coding, LED strip
Standards
Fab-Safety.1, Fab-Programming.1, Fab-Electronics.1
Author
Studio 5
Additional Contributors
Ilaria La Manna, Zaid Abusini

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Studio 5
Studio 5
Informal educator
In line with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology’s Digital Youth Strategy, STUDIO 5 is mainly aimed at nurturing youth as digital learners by sharpening their 21st century learning skills, as they develop in an all-pervasive digital environment. In… Read More

Summary

Online session to celebrate the National day in the State of Qatar, the session directed to kids in order to share Joy, happiness, and Knowledge. In this session we will briefly explain the history behind the national day, in addition we will introduce the participant to Micro_controllers in a brief in order to make a flag out of LED’s and animate these LED’s.

What You'll Need

This is an Unplugged session which doesn’t require any physical material rather than a login computer.

All the required files will be linked below:

 

The Instructions

Introduction ( Ice breaking )

We will start by ice breaking questions to grab the participant attention

1–We will ask the kids about the national day of Qatar:

  • What is the date of the national day?
  • Why do we celebrate in this day exactly?
  • What is the history behind this day?
  • When Qatar had its independence?

 

 

December 18

In this section we will go through the history behind this date.

1–We will discuss with the kids what happened in (December \ 18 \ 1878).

2- So in this day “Sheikh Jassem bin Mohammed bin Thani” took the role in the state of Qatar.

3- As he succeeded to apply his vision of unity, grow rapidly, and to reach the highest of heights.

 

 

4- Then we will present a video talks about Qatar “Pearl Of Arabia”

 

 

5- Then we will ask the participant about “Why it’s called Pearl Of Arabia”

  • As Qatar was a country lives on diving for pearls.

 

 ** Video Link

National Day Celebration

In this section we will be asking the participant about the previous celebrations and the future one.

1–We will ask the participant about their previous experience celebrating the national day and the event they went to.

 

2–We will then show them an event have been staged in Katara as a celebration.

 

 

3- This Show held in Katara in 2019 it’s a “Drone Show”.

4- As Qatar Always seeks for the latest Technology to deliver the love and affection to citizens.

 

** Video Link

Future Celebration

In this section we will be asking the participant about future celebrations of the national day.

1–We will ask about “How they wish to celebrate the National Day in the future?”

 

Note : in this section I’ve received a lot of imaginary ideas like “Driving a Helicopter to watch the pride form above”, “Flying Cars to reach the firework’s area to watch it” and many more.

 

2- Then we will smoothly jump to our topic Digital flag by asking about the Qatar Flag Design.