loops

Overview

introduction - 20 minutes

introduce concept - 10 minutes

Introduce loops

predict novel code - 5 minutes

Example of loop code

plan with teammate - 5 minutes

With teammate, plan which challenges to undertake

turtle build - 10 minutes

Use turtles to build item from building challenges

student build - 10 minutes

With building enabled, students create one of the building challenges. While building, students take notes on the procedures they used for their creation, and attempt to map that procedure list to code that the turtle can understand.

turtle build with new process - 30 minutes

Using their notes from the research time, student create their

share code - 10 minutes

share with partner - 5 minutes

Students show their partner the code that they have created during the lesson. The goal is to teach the code well enough that the partner can then turn around and explain the code to someone else.

share to group - 5 minutes

2-3 students per day share their code with the entire group.