Sphero Indi Coding

- Kindergarten and 1st Grade -

The Challenge!

1) Drive Indi in a straight line!

2) Drive Indi in a square around a friend.

3) Drive Indi along a crooked pathway.

Challenge Constraints

1) Plan your ideas and use the color tiles to drive Indi.

2) The moment your plan doesn't work can be a failure point. Noticing where things go wrong is a good thing! How can you make an adjustment and give it another try?

Student Skills In Focus

Learning Goals

Students will:

Plan ahead to meet a challenge goal.
Find and utilize failure points positively.
Develop the foundations of coding through Indi.
Use the challenge to develop the Pillar Skills in focus.

Questions To Ask Students:

What patterns can you make to drive Indi in a line?
If Indi is moving in the right direction, problem solve! How can you change your plan to try again!

Essential Questions:

How does planning ahead make for better results?
How do failure points help people to solve problems?

NJ Student Learning Standards:

8.1.2.CS.1: Select and operate computing devices that perform a variety of tasks accurately and quickly based on user needs and preferences.
8.1.2.AP.3: Create programs with sequences and simple loops to accomplish tasks.
8.1.2.AP.4: Break down a task into a sequence of steps.
8.1.2.AP.5: Describe a program’s sequence of events, goals, and expected outcomes