Questions as we get started?

Getting Loopy Unplugged Activity(Course 2, Lesson 5) • I need a volunteer to come up and follow my directions.

• I need a second volunteer to come up and follow my directions.

Getting Loopy Unplugged Activity

• Which of those sets of instructions was easier for me to ask?

• Which of those sets of instructions was easier for the volunteers to follow?

• Would your answers have changed if I had wanted the volunteers to do it 100 times?

Getting Loopy Unplugged Activity

Getting Loopy Unplugged Activity

• If I want you to perform the same operation multiple times that’s called “looping” because we “loop” over the same command multiple times.

• When I know in advance how many times that I want you to do something, it is easier for both of us if I just ask you to “repeat it that many times”

Getting Loopy Unplugged Activity

• Can you think of some other things that we could loop?

Let’s have a DANCE PARTY!

Getting Loopy Unplugged Activity

• What would the dance look like if we only repeated the main part 2 times?

• What about 100 times?

• Could we use the same loops with different dance moves?

• Can you think of any dances that are done inside a loop

Where COULD we have used loops?

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Your turn

• Let’s pick another dance:• Chicken Dance:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xmV5uHWNag

Debrief

• What do you like about the lesson itself?

• Where might your students struggle with this?

• What might you try differently?• What additional activities could you do?

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