Lesson 6: Events in Bounce

  Display: Show “Reflect” slide

Reflect: When have you caused something to happen because of an action you took? For example, you flipped a switch, the light turned on.

  Display: Show the next slide

Say: Let’s see if we can find a pattern here:

• When you tap on a device, an app starts.
• When the ball goes in the net, score a point.
• When (event), (action).

Display: Show the next slide

Say: Normally when we hear “event” we think of:

• Field trip
• Competition
• Birthday Party

We’re learning a new meaning for the word "event" today.

Vocabulary

Display: Show “Vocabulary” slide

Say: In Computer Science, events cause other actions to happen.

This lesson has one new and important vocabulary word:

• Event - An event is an action that causes something to happen.

Display: Show “Level 1-7 - Skill Building” slide

Display: Show “Level 8 - Free Play” slide

Online Puzzles

At the end of the set of puzzles, students will have the opportunity to make their game unique. Have the students try new ways to make the game more challenging. For example, try playing with many balls at once, or each time the ball bounces off a wall, launch more balls.

Remind the students to only share their work with their close friends or family. For more information watch or show the class *Pause and Think Online - Video.

Display: Show the “Events in Bounce” slide

Display: Show the “List these events” slide

Have students record the correct order of events shown on this slide. Call on a few students to share their answers before revealing the "Answer" slide.

Display: Show the “Answer” slide

Display: Show the “How do events work?” slide

Discuss the correct sequence with the class.

Although introduced in this lesson, the slide deck *Events in Bounce - How Do They Happen? can be applied more generally to express the relationship between hardware and software. Particularly, the final slide simplifies the input-to-output sequence and can be made into a poster for your classroom.

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Take the students outside to play some sort of ball game. Keep track of events and actions. For example, not dribbling in basketball results in a traveling foul and the other team gets the ball. In soccer, kicking the ball out of bounds results in the other team kicking the ball in. Getting the ball to the goal results in a point! Make up more events if your students are into it. Have all of the students yell "Yippee" when the captain of one team scores a point. Have everyone fall to the ground and roll around if a student makes two goals in a row!

Game Day Commentary (45-60 minutes)

Computer Science + English Language Arts + Math + Science

Game Day Commentary is an optional activity aligned to Common Core ELA, Common Core Math and Next Generation Science Standards, written by our teacher community. In this activity, students will read aloud instructions as they learn to code with events in Bounce to make a game. Once the game is complete, students will provide play-by-play commentary as their classmates predict which way the ball will bounce in order to score. Students will also complete a Frayer model about bar graphs prior to creating a scaled bar graph using the data collected during their game.

Standards Addressed:

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.3.4: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.4: Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.

• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.MD.B.3: Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph to represent a data set with several categories. Solve one- and two-step "how many more" and "how many less" problems using information presented in scaled bar graphs.

• NGSS.3-PS2-2: Make observations and/or measurements of an object’s motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.