Lesson 9
Life Cycle Sequences
Students will practice navigating their Bee-Bot across 4-, 5-, and 6- part sequences using the life cycles of a butterfly, frog, and/or pumpkin. Students will explore and practice using team roles as they work through this activity.
Agenda
- Ask: How do computer scientists tackle a large problem, like tracing the number cards with the Bee-Bot?
- Activity: Life Cycle sequences using the butterfly (4 parts), frog (5 parts), and/or pumpkin (6-parts)
- Reflection & Close-Out:
- How did you work with your group so that everyone got a turn to program the Bee-Bot?
- What is your favorite job to perform (driver, navigator, designer)? 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
- Life Cycle mat cards (4, 5, or 6 cards per set)
- Bee-Bot team roles lanyards (Driver, Navigator, and Designer only)
Vocabulary
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
- Life Cycle videos: Butterfly, Butterfly! (2:27), Froggy, Froggy! (2:15), A Pumpkin Grows (1:59)
- Bee-Bot 3-Button Sequence images
- Bee-Bot Team Roles poster letter / tabloid
- Blue-Bot Instructional Guide
- 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.