Explore: Forever Loops
Lesson Overview
Students will first use, then modify, a project exploring forever loops in Scratch using the TIPP & SEE model.
This will provide students with another opportunity to tinker with this concept in Scratch before starting an open-ended project in the next lesson.
Agenda
💫 Review: Use the pages in the Blue Workbook to gain a deeper understanding of forever loops. (5-10 min.)
🚀 Explore: TIPP & SEE Forever Loops: Dragon Boat Race Scratch activity (35-50 min.)
📓 Reflect: (5 min.)
How did the Dragon Boat race program help you understand forever loops in computer science?
How would you explain forever loops to another person?
Materials
computing devices for all students
Blue Level Student Workbooks, pp. 6-7
English / Spanish
TIPP & SEE Forever Loops: Dragon Boat Race
activity pages (slides 3 & 4)
English / Spanish
Google Form version (the link will automatically make a copy so that you can collect student responses)
Scratch project
English / Spanish
Vocabulary
loop: repeat a sequence of instructions
Standards
CA CSS 3-5.AP.12 Create programs that include events, loops, and conditionals.
CA CSS 3-5.AP.13 Decompose problems into smaller, manageable tasks which may themselves be decomposed.
Additional Resources
Scratch website: scratch.mit.edu
Scratch TIPP & SEE posters:
large (11x17): English / Spanish
Whose Is It, Anyway? Common Sense Education lesson for grades 3-5 on copyright and citing sources from the Internet.