CS4K5 Grade 1 Bugs
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Author:
Kathleen Harness
Description:
Students will:
Draw a bug and script it to turn, go forward, and bounce.
Copy the bug and find that the copies will have the original scripts.
Learn and apply a vocabulary of quantity, locations, and time: top and bottom, directions (up, down, left, right), and concepts such as more than half, less than half, above the line, below the line, one minute, one second, half a minute/thirty seconds.
Estimate when most/least insects are in one area of the screen stop the script, and count them.
Add a clock from Supplies.
Add a random number generator tile to a turn and/or forward tile and observe how the insect moves differently.
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