Lesson Two – Journey Maze

This computing teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to select and record different sets of instructions that can be used to complete the movement of a toy robot through a maze.

The class can identify the sequence of button presses that can be used to make the toy robot move successfully along the correct path through the maze.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and record different sets of instructions that can be used to complete the movement of a toy robot through a maze

Activities in this teaching pack include a display poster to explain how to use different instructions for movements to complete a journey through a maze and a vocabulary word bank to help select a sequence of movements that can be used to complete a journey through a maze.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to use sets of instructions that can be used to complete the movement of a toy robot through a maze.

This lesson is part of a computing scheme of work to get the children to select and record sequences of instructions that can be used to control and move a programmable toy along  and around different routes. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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