Dancing Marty

Learning Intentions

Develop a series of instructions that allow Marty to perform a task

Success Criteria

I can make a Marty Robot move a certain number of steps
I can explain why sequence is so important in computer programming

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Making Marty dance

This lesson will be all about trying to get Marty to carry out a dance by following a series of instructions.
Remember back to Scratch we did a dance program where the order of the instructions was very important.
Get into your teams and collect your team's Chromebook.
Find your Marty Robot and load up Marty Blocks.

The Dance-Off

In this lesson you will be making Marty perform a dance.
Your team will compete in a dance-off with the other teams, so the better your dance the more chance you have of getting this week's point.
Each person will have to decide which team (not including their own) is the best. The results will be tallied and the winning team will get the point.

Rules

You may use the block, but this cannot be your entire dance.
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Rules

The first task today is to try and make your Marty dance using a sequence of blocks. Your teacher will judge the dances and decide on which one is the best.

You've got 35 minutes to do this.

Task

Next lesson

The next task is a class task that will allow you to work together.

In this lesson we are going to collaborate and work together to make an amazing class dance!

Lesson review

I can make Marty move and perform a simple action such as moving

I have configured Marty to perform a series of actions, following a sequence

I have configured Marty to perform a complex sequence of actions and have managed to get it to follow a sequence of instructions

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Dancing Marty

04:11 | 20-04-2025

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