STAGE 10: DICE RACE

What do you remember from the last class?What was your favorite part?What do you wish we had had time to do?

OBJECTIVESStudents will:• Name various activities that make up their

day• Decompose large activities into a series

of smaller events• Arrange sequential events into their

logical order

VOCABULARY• Algorithm - Say it with me: Al-go-ri-thm 

A list of steps that you can follow to finish a task

VIDEOhttps://studio.code.org/s/course3/stage/10/puzzle/1

THINGS WE DO EVERY DAY

• What did you do to get ready for school this morning?

• Write answers on the board.• Put them in some kind of logical

order.• If possible, put numbers next to

responses to indicate the order that they happen.

• Point out places where order matters and places where it doesn't. https://drmaryblog.wordpress.com/

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EXAMPLES• Things we do that are a sequence of steps, one after the other:• Eating breakfast, • Brushing teeth, • Planting a flower

Computers need algorithms and programs to show them how to do even simple things that we can do without thinking about them.

• It can be challenging to describe something that comes naturally in enough detail for a computer to replicate.

Let's try doing this with a new and fun activity, like playing the Dice Race Game!

DICE RACE DIRECTIONS

EXAMPLEMatch the steps in the Dice Race game to the order that they should appear in the algorithm.

DIRECTIONS• Do the worksheet on paper.• There are 2 levels to complete in Stage 10 on the

computer