A recipe with a name: 6th to 8th coding
Functions as named recipes. A free 6th to 8th 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: functions as named recipes.
Hook (5 min)
- Ask the class: How do you name a chunk of steps so you can use it again?
- 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 recipe with a name.
- 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: Functions (https://peabody.kids/world/code/code-functions)
- Print: On paper: Read It, Run It, Say It (https://teach.peabody.kids/coding-lessons/read-it-run-it)
- Learn: Practise: a named recipe (https://peabody.kids/practice/code/recipedo)
- Learn: Practise: a recipe with a number (https://peabody.kids/practice/code/recipeparam)
Exit ticket (5 min)
- On a slip or aloud: one thing I learned about a recipe with a name, 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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