The students were introduced to the concept of "loops". A "Loop" is the action of doing something over and over again. "Repeat" is doing something again. We illustrated the concept of loops by learning a dance. Once we learned it, then we added music and disco lighting. It was a lot of fun! Then the students identified the loops in the dance and simplified it. Vocabulary
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Then the students went online and learned more about loops and how to implement them in Blockly code. Using loops is an important skill in programming because manually repeating commands is tedious and inefficient. With these Code.org puzzles, students learned to add instructions to existing loops, gather repeated code into loops, and recognize patterns that need to be repeated. | |