Lesson Plan

Creativity in Algorithms

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Groups work with the program they built in the previous instructional activity to make it more creative. The resource challenges pupils to add functionality to their existing programs by adding a new command.

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Instructional Ideas
  • If you have not done "The Need for Algorithms" with your class, do so before this lesson
Classroom Considerations
  • Cut out the command strips prior to class
  • The video is the same video used in the first lesson of the unit
  • The third lesson in a series of 10
Pros
  • There are extra challenges for those pupils that quickly figure out the first one
  • Teacher links provide a key for the activity and a cumulative assessment for the unit
Cons
  • None