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Coding · Pre-K

Plan Before You Run

Children learn Olly's planning routine (look, trace and say the plan, build, run and check). They predict where Bolt the robot will stop before running, plan routes that collect a gem, and compare what happened with their plan.

  • 3 lessons
  • About 30 minutes
  • Plan and predict check: 4 questions
  • Ways to answer: program with blocks, choose an answer, put in order and true or false
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What learners will discover

  • Make a plan for Bolt's route (trace it and say the arrows) before building it.
  • Predict where Bolt will stop before running a program.
  • Compare what happened with the plan, and change the blocks or the plan when they differ.

Lessons

  1. Look and plan 5 steps3 practiceabout 9 min
  2. Predict, then run 5 steps2 practiceabout 9 min
  3. Plan, run, check 5 steps2 practiceabout 10 min
  4. Plan and predict check 4 questions at the end

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