A scoreboard that remembers: 3rd to 5th coding
Variables as a scoreboard. A free 3rd to 5th lesson plan with a hook, practice that links to free activities, and an exit ticket. Copy it and make it yours.
Lesson plan
Goal
- Students work toward: variables as a scoreboard.
Hook (5 min)
- Ask the class: What does the game need to remember?
- Take two or three answers and write them where everyone can see them.
Teach (15 min)
- Say the big idea in one plain sentence: a scoreboard that remembers.
- Show one example, then one that is not an example, and ask how the two differ.
- Have students tell a partner or a small group the idea in their own words.
Practise (20 min)
- Choose one for the whole class or let groups pick:
- Learn: A Box That Remembers (https://peabody.kids/world/code/code-a-box-that-remembers)
- Print: On paper: The Scoreboard Game (https://teach.peabody.kids/coding-lessons/scoreboard-game)
- Learn: Practise: a score that grows (https://peabody.kids/practice/code/scoreadd)
- Learn: Practise: swapping two things (https://peabody.kids/practice/code/swap)
Exit ticket (5 min)
- On a slip or aloud: one thing I learned about a scoreboard that remembers, and one question I still have.
- Sort the slips into: got it, nearly, not yet. Start tomorrow with the last pile.
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