Learning Objective

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Explain what touch develop is to your students:

TouchDevelop is a programming environment that runs on your mobile devices. You write scripts by tapping on the screen. You do not need a separate PC or keyboard. Scripts can perform various tasks similar to regular apps. Any TouchDevelop user can install, run, edit, and publish scripts. You can share your scripts with other people by publishing them to the TouchDevelop script bazaar, or by submitting them as an app to the Windows Store or Windows Phone Store.1Learning ObjectiveLO: Were learning to write simple procedures / algorithms to solve navigate a maze.

Lesson Objective: - Students are going to learn how to use a combination of procedures to solve a maze. They will need to create the procedure so that when the maze image has loaded, the turtle navigates the maze. 2Quick ReminderGo to www.touchdevelop.comSign in using a windows live ID.

Click on the open link at the top of the screen.

Click on the Create Script buttonChoose turtle drawings

Walk your students through how to get logged on to the touch develop environment. 3How would you solve this?

Discuss with your students what we use procedures for. Reference last lesson and talk about how you managed to make triangles without having to repeat a number of things.

You will need to show them the background first.

Theyre going to create two procedures. The first procedure will be shown to them which is how to get the turtle home. The second procedure will get him from A to B. Extension: - Students challenged to make their own mazes in paint which are 800 pixels by 400. They should then get their friends to try and solve them.

4Step One, THE MAZE!:

This video tutorial is located in the folder so that you may put it on your vle or do whatever you want with it. You can show the students how to embed the background maze. This is a short tutorial which shows you how. 5Step Two, Home Procedure!

Linking to the knowledge from the previous lesson. This part of shows students how to create a procedure which takes the turtle home. This will be used at the beginning. 6Reminders:

If you cant remember how to set the background, the video tutorials and the worksheet is available to help you!

7Main Task: - Using the procedure and background, you are required to navigate the maze. You must.Set the background.Setup the home procedure.Setup a procedure / algorithm to find your way around the maze!

Get your students to create a home procedure using the video and get your students to navigate the map. They will need to evidence their code and explain what theyre doing. 8Extension Task: - Create a maze in a graphics package which is 800 by 480 pixels. Try to keep the maze in the middle, like the maze supplied.Set the background.Setup the home procedure.Setup a procedure / algorithm to find your way around the maze!

Now that your students have navigated the map you have given them. Let them be creative. Get your students to make their own maze and navigate it.

Remind them that their home procedure will be different depending on where they have set up the Start point. 9What have you learnt?Your teacher has given you an assessment sheet.can you explain what youve learnt this lesson?Explain why you might usewhat youvelearnt.

10Homework, are you game?Who is your favourite game character?Using squares draw out your favourite character, thinkabout pixel art!Here is mine!

Squared paper

You need to colour in the squares and create some pixel art. You may tell them to keep it simple, this next task might be difficult for some students. The grid will help them. 11