Outdoor coding activity

2nd Kindergarten of Perama

Open in-person activity

m.tsapara@hotmail.com

Greek

25ΗΣ Μαρτίου 31, 188 63, Πέραμα

Goals

Students will:

• Practice their algorithmic thinking skills while creating algorithms in order to match the sounds with their origin.

• Collaborate each other in order to achieve a common goal

• Learn how to use commands by using the direction coding cards (using the following 4 commands: Walk Forward, Walk Backward, Rotate Right, Rotate Left)

Materials

tape, pictures, measuring paper, markers, sheets of paper, computer, printer

Description of the activity

With the children we go out to the school yard. We ask them to slow down their rhythms and to listen very carefully to the sounds of their city. Then discussion follows about the sounds they heard. On a piece of paper we draw three columns and write down three sounds that children tell us and remind us of a city (eg a horn of a car, crying baby, police siren), three sounds of natural environment (eg wolf lynching, owl) and three sounds we encounter both in city and forest (rain, wind, rustling leaves). Then we ask the children to draw the sounds on a piece of paper, otherwise we encourage them to look for pictures on the internet which can be printed. Using paper tape, a grid is drawn on the ground and the children are divided into groups of three people. The first group co-decides and sets the start square. In addition to this, it places all the cards in the grid and chooses the robot child, which is placed on the starting point. The second group, under cooperation, decides which route the robot child will follow (e.g. collecting all the cards with the sounds of the city, of the nature or the common ones). What’s more, the direction coding cards (using the following 4 commands: Walk Forward, Walk Backward, Rotate Right, Rotate Left)  are placed in order to form the algorithmic path. The third group undertakes the programming, one child of the group reads the orientation cards giving verbal instructions to the robot child (e.g. go two steps forward, turn right, etc.) and the other two children have the role of the chosen one of the robot child's route.

This activity is a collaborative one - Flora Ninou - Anthi Arkouli - Maria Tsapara

participating in the  focus group του mooc Navigating Innovative Technologies Across the Curriculum of EU Code Week

https://blogs.sch.gr/2nippera/