Fulfills Step 1 of GSUSA Daisy, Brownie, or Junior Coding Basics badge requirements.
Items Needed:
A set of sequence cards
- 4 Ada Lovelace Timeline cards
- Tree Algorithm from Teacher Zendo Creations
- Making Lemonade from Teacher Zendo Creations
- Paper Airplanes from Code.org (Video example available)
Instructions:
Computer programs tell computers what to do, usually with a list of steps. Those steps are called algorithms. We follow steps all the time in our daily lives, following human algorithms. It’s important for the algorithm to have the steps in the right order. When washing your hands, would you rinse your hands before you soaped them up? No. Rinsing is to get all the soap off. The steps have to be in the correct order.
An algorithm is a program to do something step by step. Sequence is the order those steps are done in. Sometimes it wouldn’t matter, like when you put your pants and shirt on or what order you color a picture in. You could do it in any order. Sometimes it does matter, like if you tried to put peanut button on a sandwich after you already put the two slices of bread together.
Use the chosen cards to put the steps in the right order.
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For Brownies and Juniors – explain Sequencing: You must follow the algorithm in the right order to reach the correct ending. That’s called sequencing: following the steps in the right order.
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