![]() If the idea of 500 pieces of bread covered in peanut butter and jelly in your classroom is giving you a nervous breakdown, this lovable family followed this up with a drawing instructions challenge which might be easier to replicate in school. Plus, the kids are ace.īest bit: At 4.10 when the poor boy (Evan) nearly has a meltdown at his dad’s shenanigans. ![]() Josh showcases the perfect attitude towards this activity blending the computational thinking style of carrying out the instructions with a very human warmth and humour. ![]() Josh Darnit (real name, apparently) and his adorable kids kicked off this challenge with this sandwich-making video. How to make a peanut better and jelly sandwich Watch and enjoy these excellent videos with your class, then you can adapt the activities into something for your class to ‘program’ their partner and ‘debug’ their instructions where necessary. That’s where the ‘exact instructions challenge’ comes in. But when programming you can’t say ‘move forward a bit’, or ‘go over there’, you need to be way more precise about what a ‘bit’ is and where specifically ‘there’ is. With instructional writing you can at least rely on some human element of interpretation, for example knowing what a hammer and a nail is when following flat-pack instructions for building their new Ikea bookcase. Instructional writing has always been a great exercise for English lessons, giving children a task of writing specific, unambiguous, step-by-step descriptions of exactly what the reader should do.īut nowadays that idea is more important, and more literal, than ever thanks to the rise of coding and computational thinking.
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