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In this lesson students engage in creating, modifying and testing collisions and reactions (cause and effect) processes as instructions. Playgrounds are Google Slides with code blocks that students use to arrange and then act out as the computer processing the instructions. The concepts of ratios and examining ratios before and after collisions are made explicit.
Resources:
- LOs & Standards addressed (teacher guide, pages 2–4)
- Lesson plan (teacher guide, pages 10–15)
- Slide deck
- Activities:
- Activity 1: Introduce the playground activity
- Activity 2: Code in playground
- Activity 3 & Wrap-up: Test your instructions
For the complete MSM Unit 1: Things Break Apart click here.
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