OVERVIEW

Activity Overview:

This lesson uses familiar nursery rhymes to introduce secondary students to the concepts of coding, sequencing, and looping with microbits.

Meta description

• Subject Area: Computer Science, Reading/Language Arts, Pre-literacy phonemic awareness
• Grade Level : 9-12
• Computer Science Domains:
  • Algorithms and Programming
• Computer Science Principles:
  • Collaborating Around Computing
• Materials:
  • Micro:bit
• Considerations: +

Lesson Plan

Overview

This lesson uses familiar nursery rhymes to introduce secondary students to the concepts of coding, sequencing, and looping with microbits.

ASSESSMENT PRE/POST-TEST

What are terms used for logic loops? What is an algorithm? What is the use of a loop? What does a for loop do? What does an if loop do?

OBJECTIVES

1. Repeat the rhyme/song back in the correct order.
2. Define loop, sequence, chain tale.
3. Construct their own unique and logical loop, complete with rhyming words, if age appropriate.

CATCH/HOOK

After we read through some familiar nursery rhymes, identify loops and themes that could be used in programming.

ACTIVITY INSTRUCTIONS

Take the physically written code from last lesson and start to plug in to microbits studio. Work through the problems presented. The goal is to have a code that reads the nursery rhyme while using loops.

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REVIEW

What were some problems you had while working through this?

STANDARDS