Spring into Code Plan

● Complete your plan as a group during the week of March 11-15.

● Approve your plan with Mrs. Herring-Watson the week of March 25-28,
either during class or office hours.
● Include this document with your final submission for full bonus points.

Fill in each box below:

Group Members’ Names and Class Section

Ragan Langrell, Logan Wolfe, Dominic Mezza, and Whit Brizzolara

Coding Challenge/Activity & Description of Learning Goals

The students will complete a Sphero Olympics. Since our time constraint is 20

minutes, we have decided to do only two activities.

To begin, our students will create a flag and makeup a country for their Sphero/

Dash&Dot. This allows the students to be creative. (5-7 minutes)

Next, our students will play Bocci Ball. We will have a large target made out of

different pieces of construction paper and the students will try their best to get into

the bullseye. The students can knock each other’s Dash&Dot’s off to get into the

bullseye. (5-7 minutes)

After this, we will have a small course set up for the students to send their Sphero’s

through. This course will be set up with turns, objects to go through, and certain

things their spheros have to touch (such as a heart shape/star shape, etc). (10-15

minutes)

All of these things will be a challenge for the students because it will force them to

think about coding and what the direction the sphero has to go, how fast they will go,

how they will turn, and how long they will travel.

Written directions that you can read to students at a 3rd-4th grade level
 Today we are playing Dash Olympics. We will divide you up into two teams
that will be competing in two activities, which are Bocci ball and a small
course. The first game is Bocci ball. We will have a large target made out of
different pieces of construction paper and the students will try their best to get into
the bullseye. The students can knock each other’s Dash&Dot’s off to get into the
bullseye. The last game is a small course that students will try to completed before
the other team. The students to send their Sphero’s through this course will be set
up with turns, objects to go through, and certain things their spheros have to touch
(such as a heart shape/star shape, etc).

Estimation of how long it will take students to complete the activity (Plan on 20 Minutes)
Materials (What materials will you need?)

● Physical materials (You will provide these. Pick a theme for your group, decorate
your coding station, and have fun with this!)
Bullseye made out of construction paper, obstacles for the spheros to go
through, and olympic style decorations.

● Digital materials (Spheros, Dash&Dot, Macbooks, iPads, or any additional

technology must be requested from Dr. Trumble or Mrs. Herring-Watson)

Sphero’s and Dash&Dot, maybe a couple iPads (unless we have enough for
the students from our own)

Sketch of physical space needed for the activity (you can sketch this on your iPad then
upload the image here.)
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