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World of Computing

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Lesson 2.2 A Day at the Park

Description

In this lesson, students go through another Karel Adventure story! In this story, students will help Karel get to the park to set up a scavenger hunt. Along the way, students will review if/else statements and loops, and they will learn about functions and top-down decomposition.

Objective

Students will be able to:

  • Use program control statements to write efficient programs
  • Define and call functions
  • Utilize top-down decomposition to break problems into smaller, more manageable parts
  • Write programs that are clear and easy to follow
  • Use custom colors to create a scene in Karel

Activities

These are all the activities included in the lesson

2.2.1 The Adventure Begins - Using Control Structures
2.2.2 Karel Clean Up
2.2.3 Find the Exit
2.2.4 Escape the Bedroom
2.2.5 Karel Makes it out of the Room - Karel Functions
2.2.6 Fetch Karel
2.2.7 Get Down the Hallway
2.2.8 Escape the Building
2.2.9 Navigating the City Streets - Top-Down Decomposition
2.2.10 Building Towers
2.2.11 Get Around the Cars
2.2.12 Find the Park
2.2.13 Karel Makes it to the Park - Custom Colors
2.2.14 Making Custom Colors
2.2.15 Make a Tree
2.2.16 Set Up the Scavenger Hunt