Share

Show Your Learning

Active Share

• Each group will share their final project for the class. To help students embrace that there are multiple solutions to the same challenge, have each group place their 123 Robot on the field, and show their code to the class.
• Then, let the class try to predict which sample they think will be collected first, second, and third. When each group then starts their project, encourage students to look for whether their prediction was correct.
• When the 123 Robot completes the project, have the group explain why they chose to collect and bury the samples in that order.
• Highlight similarities and differences between projects, and call attention to how exciting it is that students found so many ways to solve the same challenge!

Discussion Prompts

Digital Documentation

• Take a video of students sharing their projects, and explaining how they chose that order. Share multiple solutions with your classroom community to show how students were able to complete the challenge in their own ways.

Student-Driven Visible Thinking

• As students are problem-solving and iterating on their projects, take notes on the questions that you or the students ask, to help them identify possible problems. Post these questions in the classroom for students to access in future coding challenges, to help as they learn to problem-solve for themselves.

Metacognition-Reflecting Together

To highlight that there can be multiple solutions to the same challenge ask questions like:

• How is this project similar to or different from your group’s sequence?
• If you were going to do this challenge again, would you change your project? Why or why not?
• What is one thing you learned from another group’s project?
• What is a non-coding challenge that can have more than one possible solution? (Examples could include giving directions to your house, making an ice cream sundae, etc.)