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Recommended Grade: Primary
Recommended Grade: Primary
Curriculum Expectations: Data Management
Curriculum Expectations: Data Management
Learning Goal:
Learning Goal:
We are learning to collect and organize primary data and display that data.
Required Supplies:
Required Supplies:
- 6 plastic cups to act as "bowling pins"
- Dash, ipad, Blocklify or Blockly
- whiteboard, ten frames
- Graph paper
Challenge: Students are trying to use Dash to bowl over as many cups as they can in 10 turns.
Challenge: Students are trying to use Dash to bowl over as many cups as they can in 10 turns.
Instructions:
Instructions:
- Give students a handful of strips the Set up 6 plastic cups in a pyramid form.
- Give the students a starting line, approximately 2 meters away.
- Have students estimate how many cups they think they will be able to knock down in 10 turns.
- Students then take turns coding Dash to move forward and knock down as many cups as possible. After each turn they should record their results using a math manipulative, tallies or ten frames.
- When each player has had 10 turns, they will graph their collected data.
Reflection Questions:
Reflection Questions:
- What code did you notice worked best for getting a strike?
- Which method did you use for keeping track of your score?
- How close was your estimation to your actual pin count?
- How did you score in comparison to other participants?
- Whose score was the highest? Whose score was the least?
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