Lesson 11
Maze Decomposition
Students will create "buggy" challenges for their classmates to solve in this Bee-Bot activity. This lesson works with any set of Bee-Bot mat cards, and is easily customizable to allow students to revisit a favorite Bee-Bot mat activity, or to create their own!
Agenda
- Ask: What is a difficult Bee-Bot challenge you (and your team) had to work through? How did you persevere?
- Activity: Maze Creation / Maze Decomposition
- Reflection & Close-Out:
- How did you work collaboratively with your team to solve another team's maze?
- What was a challenge your team worked to overcome?
Materials
- Bee-Bots, 1 for each group of 4 students
- various classroom materials to build a maze with
- Planning worksheet
- Decomposition Planning Worksheet (optional)
- Bee-Bot team roles lanyards (optional)
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
- Yellow Bee-Bot Command Cards (1 set per Bee-Bot being used) small / large
- Bee-Bot Algorithm Planning sheet created by Owen Peery, Alamo Elementary
- 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.