TKP Tips: Teaching the SmallBasic HOLIDAY CARD recipe
The parts of the HOLIDAY CARD recipe are as follows:
1) Recipe – guided line-by-line translation, to teach core concepts. For the core recipe here – CWV381, you are building on core ‘drawing’ concepts, such as For Loops, Variables and events. You can, of course, change Colors and shapes as well. The cheat sheet for the core recipe is LNH851-0. There is no teacher-training video for the core recipe at this time.
2) Variation – instructor – led verbal refactoring and modifications to add concepts to the solution. In this variation we build on the initial event-handling logic introduced in the core recipe by working with the event intervals. We also sometimes ‘play’ the other objects on the screen, such as the text, the size or color of the trees etc….
3) Recap – presented by the instructors, re-do the recipe to reinforce core concepts. You’ll want to particularly emphasize common mistakes with event-handling syntax.
4) Quiz – facilitated–pairs reach 100% mastery by working together. Remember to do a recap, instructors repeating the recipe BEFORE you get the kids started with the quiz. There is no quiz for this recipe at this time.
5) Homework – There is no homework for this recipe at this time.
6) Xtras – There are no Xtras at this time
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