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Coding · Preschool

Find the Missing Step

Children spot picture plans with a gap, choose the missing step by looking at the picture before and after, and fix Bolt the robot's programs by adding the missing arrow. This is their first taste of debugging: finding and fixing a problem.

  • 3 lessons
  • About 25 minutes
  • Missing step check: 4 questions
  • Ways to answer: program with blocks, choose an answer, match pairs, put in order and true or false
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What learners will discover

  • Notice when a picture plan has a step missing.
  • Choose the missing step by looking at the step before and the step after the gap.
  • Run Bolt's program, see where it stops, and add the missing arrow.

Lessons

  1. Something is missing! 4 steps2 practiceabout 7 min
  2. Choose the missing step 5 steps3 practiceabout 8 min
  3. Fix Bolt's missing arrow 6 steps3 practiceabout 9 min
  4. Missing step check 4 questions at the end

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