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Coding · Preschool

Make and Test a Simple Route

Children plan routes of two or three arrows for Bolt the robot, test them by running and looking carefully at where Bolt stops, and fix routes that bump or stop short. A floor-grid game lets them be the robot.

  • 3 lessons
  • About 30 minutes
  • Route check: 4 questions
  • Ways to answer: program with blocks, choose an answer, sort into groups and true or false
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What learners will discover

  • Make a route of two or three arrows that takes Bolt to the pad.
  • Test a route by running it and say whether it worked: on the pad, bumped, or stopped short.
  • Change a route that does not work, often just one arrow, so that it reaches the pad.

Lessons

  1. Make a route 5 steps2 practiceabout 8 min
  2. Test it: run and look 4 steps2 practiceabout 8 min
  3. Fix a route 6 steps3 practiceabout 9 min
  4. Route check 4 questions at the end

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