Lesson 7
Bug Dance!
After reading the book Bug Dance, students will program their Bee-Bots to perform the dance they learned in the book. Then, students will use the yellow command cards to program their own original dance.
Agenda
Agenda
- Ask: What do you know and/or remember about the Bee-Bot?
- Read: Bug Dance by Stuart J. Murphy
- Activity: Students program the Bug Dance dance sequence.
- Activity: Students program their own original dance sequences.
- Reflection & Close-Out:
- What did you learn/remember about the Bee-Bot today?
- How did you work with your group so that everyone got a turn to program the Bee-Bot's dance?
Materials
Materials
- Bug Dance book
- 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 team roles lanyards (Driver and Navigator only)
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
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
Additional Resources
- Blue-Bot Instructional Guide
- Bug Dance example videos (from SFUSD Summer Institute 2018)
- Bee-Bot Team Roles poster letter / tabloid
- Technology Brain Break: choose a video from this list!
Standards
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.