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Module 1 Lesson 2 - Introduction to StarLogo Nova and Building Flower Turtles

Slide Deck

Teaching Summary

Getting Started 5 minutes (Review)

1. Review of the previous day’s lesson and concepts and connection to today’s lesson

Activity #1: Guided Tour of StarLogo Nova 20 minutes (Guided Practice)

 

Coding Challenges

The link below will take you to a google doc that contains printable copies of 6 specific sets of coding challenges, that are organized as follows:

Set 1- Math Concepts- Left/Right degrees & Heading

Set 2- Math Concepts- X & Y Coordinates and Random

Set 3- Math Concepts- Heading, Absolute Value & Percent Chance with conditionals

Set 4 - CS Concept- adding color to terrain and repeat loops

Set 5- Math Concepts- Z coordinate (Altitude and 3-D view)

 

Getting Loopy

How to play Getting Loopy:

Option 1: 

1. Hand out paper or cards and writing implement to each student.
2. Break into pairs.  
3. Each student comes up with a sequence of movements for his or her partner to perform.  The movements have to be grouped together in a loop.  

•  Repeat Loop:  The activities are repeated a certain number of times (set a maximum number of repeats).  Example:

                              Repeat 5 times

 

Lightbot and StarLogo NOVA

Activity

Have students open the Lightbot Activity using this link, and complete the "Basics 1" (series of 8) activity.  These steps introduce basic concepts of looping, procedures, etc within the pre-programmed Hour of Code activities, and students enjoy the challenge of completing the puzzles (and if time allows, let students continue throughout the Lightbot activities).  

Then, brainstorm with students how they could create a Lightbot experience for someone else in SLNova.