Human as Computer - Learning to give exact orders

Keywords

instruction, order, command, exact, testing

Related to Curriculum

Learning to give exact instructions and commands, Testing instructions and commands

Prime Target Group

For elementary school, classes 2-4

Required Equipment and Material

a grid made with tape or string and some obstacles (can be printed as well)

Short Description

In this exercise kids will learn to give exact orders while moving each >others through the grid.

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Preparations

• Print the empty grid for everybody
• Print the example grid for everybody
• Prepare grid in the class room floor with tape or string
• Choose obstacles (they can be what ever that fit to the square of grid)
• Plan few different grids with obstacles

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Script

Planning the route

• Give students the example grid paper
• Instruct them to write or draw instructions to the paper (if drawn they can do it with arrows for example)
• Instructions They can use are: Move forward, Turn left or Turn Right

Testing the route

• After planning the route let students try their route in the grid made to class floor
• Alternatively they can draw the route with pen to their own paper or on a blank example grid
• If they find bugs they can fix them and try again

Designing new grids

• After Testing their route students can design new places for obstacles and test their route plan again
• Usually after this the old route doesn’t work anymore, so they have to plan new one

Questions to think

• Is there impossible grids?
• Is some plan invincible?
• How could the plan be made better? (could we use conditions?)

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Required materials or links

• empty grid for everybody
• example grid for everybody
• lightbot game

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License

CC BY 4.0