Lesson: 32 - Unplugged Activity (Introduction to Programming)

Purpose: To teach relative orientation and procedural operations.

No. of Classes

One Class - One Hour.

Materials Required

Chalk to draw the grid, enough space to conduct activity.

Curriculum Content 10.1)Procedural operations with real people(Unpluged activity).
Prior knowledge

Student should know about directions(left, right, forward and backward).

Exercises

Exercise:1


1. Introduce Directions. Real activity for students using chalk. Directions activity – Forward, Backward, Turn Left and Turn Right.

Solutions


  • Activity Video-1 (Solution).
  • Activity Video-2 (Solution).
  • Activity Video-3 (Solution).

    • Teacher's Instruction
    1. Make sure the children know left and right hand. You can give warm-up exercise like raise your left hand, raise your right hand, touch your left ear, etc.
    2. Use the words “Move forward”, “Turn left”, “Turn right” while teaching.
    3. Teachers can help to students to use repeated conditions like Move forward 4 times, Turn left 2 times, etc.
    4. Teachers can conduct games by creating various paths and allow the Students to travel through those paths and reach the treasure correctly.
    5. Teachers can make the Students play these games repeatedly so that they will learn about the directions thoroughly (left, right, forward).