Unit of work

1: Introducing Marty and Programming

This unit of work introduces robots and computational thinking to young learners.

Contents: 4 lessons
Time per lesson: 30–45 min per lesson

Overview

In this unit, learners with very little or no programming experience will be introduced to robots and computational thinking. In addition, learners will have the opportunity to command real-life robots with movement instructions via colored cards.

Lessons in this unit

4 lessons

0.01: Who is Marty the Robot?Learn about robots and how Marty moves!45 minBeginner
0.02: What is a Program?Create instructions for Marty!45 minBeginner
0.03 Marty's First MovesThis is a lesson introducing the color cards for unplugged coding.30 minBeginner
0.04 Marty Finds and Fixes MistakesThis is a lesson highlighting unplugged debugging.45 minIntermediate