Lesson 10
Shapes, Color, and Size
Students will learn about debugging as they navigate their Bee-Bots to solve challenges of increasing complexity involving shapes, color, and size.
Agenda
- Ask: Has your Bee-Bot ever gone the wrong way? What did you do to fix it?
- Read: Circus Shapes by Stuart J. Murphy (optional)
- Introduce: Bee-Bot Team Roles
- Activity: Shapes, Color, and Size
- Reflection & Close-Out:
- What bugs did you find in your program today?
- What is your favorite job to perform (driver, navigator, designer, debugger)? Why?
Materials
- Bee-Bots, 1 for each group of 4 students
- yellow Bee-Bot Command Cards (1 set per Bee-Bot being used) small / large
- Bee-Bot mats, 1 per robot used
- Shapes, Color, and Size mat cards (16 per set)
- Bee-Bot team roles lanyards (all 4 roles)
Vocabulary
debug: find and fix errors (bugs) in programs
decomposition: breaking down a problem into smaller pieces
program: a set of instructions written in a language that a computer understands
sequence: a set of instructions that follow one another in order
Additional Resources
- Original Shapes, Color, Size lesson plan
- Blue-Bot Instructional Guide
- Bee-Bot Team Roles poster letter / tabloid
- Technology Brain Break: choose a video from this list!
Standards
CA CSS: K-2.AP.12 Create programs with sequences of commands and simple loops, to express ideas or address a problem.
CA CSS: K-2.AP.13 Decompose the steps needed to solve a problem into a sequence of instructions.
CA CSS: K-2.AP.14 Develop plans that describe a program's sequence of events, goals, and expected outcomes.
CA CSS: K-2.AP.16 Debug errors in an algorithm or program that includes sequences and simple loops.