How to Implement

• Watch: Code.org Getting Loopy video.
• Introduce the concept of a loop - running the same sequence multiple times.
  • Ask for a volunteer and have her stand.
  • Instruct your volunteer to walk around the table (or her chair, or a friend).
  • When she finishes, instruct her to do it again, using the exact same words you did before.
  • When she finishes, instruct in the same way again.
  • Then again.
• Discuss with the girls: Would it have been easier for me to just ask you to go around the table four times? What if I wanted you to do it ten times?
• Explain that when I know in advance that I want you to do something a certain number of times, it's easier for both of us if I just ask you to "Repeat it that many times."
• In coding, repeating an action many times is called "looping."
• Can you think of some other things that we could loop?
• Sometimes, when you know that you will be doing something over and over, it is helpful to know how many times it needs to be done before you begin. That way, you can keep track of how many actions you have left as you go.
• Look at the dance moves provided on the Getting Loopy worksheet.
• Demonstrate to the group what the entire dance looks like when performed at full speed.
• Then run through the dance slowly, one instruction at a time, with the the whole group.
• Ask if they can find the loop in the instructions?
  • What would the dance look like if we only repeated the main part 2 times?
  • What if we repeated the main part 4 times?
• Challenge the girls to find anything else in the dance that a loop could be used for.

Wrap Up Discussion:

• Do you think it is easier to add more pictures to the screen or change the number of times we loop?
• Would your answer be the same if we wanted to loop 100 times?
• Could we use these same loops with different dance moves?
• Do you know any dances that are done inside a loop?