Focus Area: Robotics
4th Grade
Day 13- Importance of Sequencing
1. Vocabulary:
- Sequence: a particular order in which related events, movements, or things follow each other.
- Specific: clearly defined or identified
. Lesson:
Look at table on page 14 of your journal
Go over what the programming project should have included by the end of the quarter. You will have an obstacle course you will put their robots through that demonstrates each of these things.
Look at table on page 14 of your journal
Go over what the programming project should have included by the end of the quarter. You will have an obstacle course you will put their robots through that demonstrates each of these things.
3. Activity:
Get with your research partner and write out how to make a PB&J Sandwich in your Journal (Page 9)
You have been provided with 13 lines and you should aim to have at LEAST 13 steps.
Get back with group:
You will share as a group on Smartboard to save for tomorrow's lesson. Make sure you are specific. Example: First step, remove the bread from the bag and place it on a clean plate
Discuss about how successful you will be making a sandwich if you changed the order (or sequence)
Possible scenarios:
You have been provided with 13 lines and you should aim to have at LEAST 13 steps.
Get back with group:
You will share as a group on Smartboard to save for tomorrow's lesson. Make sure you are specific. Example: First step, remove the bread from the bag and place it on a clean plate
Discuss about how successful you will be making a sandwich if you changed the order (or sequence)
Possible scenarios:
- What if you took the bread out last, after spreading the PB and J?
- What if you spread the jelly before the peanut butter?
- What if you spread the PB & J before taking the bread out of the bag?
- What if you spread the PB and J with your finger instead of the knife?
4. Wrap-Up:
Think back to the “HOUR OF CODE” last year. All the blocks were there, but if you put them in the wrong order, was your program successful?
In this programming project, you will have all the commands (things the robot does) in front of you but if you put them in the wrong order, your robot will not be able to complete the course.
Sequence and Specifics are VERY important to programming
Think back to the “HOUR OF CODE” last year. All the blocks were there, but if you put them in the wrong order, was your program successful?
In this programming project, you will have all the commands (things the robot does) in front of you but if you put them in the wrong order, your robot will not be able to complete the course.
Sequence and Specifics are VERY important to programming