Kindergarten of Piperia participates in Euro Code Week 2021 and organizes a code activity in the context of the eTwinning project: L.I.F.E. Little Inventors save Forest Ecosystems
October 13 has been designated by the United Nations as the International Day for the Reduction of the Impact of Natural Disasters. The purpose of this day is to increase the global interest in reducing the risks of natural disasters but also the cooperation of peoples and states to manage their problems and effects.
This activity is integrated in an european Etwinning project named L.I.F.E. Little Inventors save Forest Ecosystems. The main goal of the activity based on the Codyroby concept, is to introduce our students to programming and to patterns of thinking that enable them to combine creativity and strategic decision-making in order to make the right choices for the conservation of forests.
An owl robot moves through the grid in order to reach the forest. It passes through stations related to the dangers threatening the forests which it must remove in order for the forest to remain safe. When the robot owl reaches each cause it will say: e.g. CAUTION dry grass is burned. Risk of fire. And then the tab will be removed so that the owl robot reaches safely in the healthy forest that will be its destination.
Reference may be made to the fire brigade and the emergency telephone.
Themes for drawing by the children: A. Natural causes and B. Anthropogenic causes
We ‘ll need: an activity box of photos that the children will have created with the causes that threaten the forests (in the context of etwinning this will be the result of cooperation through ICT), a dice with the pictures above and the arrows for creating the code. We first make a grid on the floor. Photos with the causes that threaten the forests will be placed on the floor. Each time a student rolls the dice with the pictures, another student will create the code with the darts-cards in order the first student to program the owl robot to the right cell on the floor. A third student will check the correctness of its movements. The roles alternate every time and the activity ends when students collect all the cards with the causes that threaten the forests and the owl can then reach the forest safely.
It can also be unplugged, with bee bot, mousebot or samy or in the online version of beebot.(https://beebot.terrapinlogo.com/)
The activity as we implemented it in the kindergarten of Piperia
