Dash's Dance Contest (Gr. 3-5)

Description

Dash is competing in a dance competition at Dot's big dance party, first as a solo act and then with a partner.

Objectives

• Loops - students will program Dash to Repeat a series of commands until the specific statement is true, students will program Dash's distance sensors using the Obstacle in Front event, students will nest a series of commands to repeat inside the Repeat until bracket
• Drive - students will program the robot to drive backward and forward, left and right.
• Look - students will program the robot to look left and right, up and down.
• All Lights - students will program Dash's ears and chest to light up in colors, e.g., green.
• Adding commands outside of a loop - students will learn to add a non-repeat block outside of the Repeat Until block.
• Connecting Stacks - students will learn to connect more than one stacks of commands

Lesson Procedure

In this dance-themed puzzle, your students will learn how to program the Repeat until block and understand how it can be stopped by programming an event that will stop the repeat. Students will program Dash's sounds and dance moves over the course of 4 challenges. In the final program, Dash will repeat a slow dance with a partner (the obstacle) until detecting a clap. The concentration of this puzzle is on programming the Repeat until block as a loop until something happens, e.g., detecting an obstacle in front.