Annie Conda added this page on March 15, 2023

I'm going to cover more details about the Classroom Quiz Unplugged Activity that I showed you in the book.

This Unplugged Activity helps reinforce the lessons we learned in the Classroom Quiz section. You'll get a chance to review and practice if else statements and how they work.

You'll need a group of people and a coin. Any coin works, as long as there is a clear "heads" and "tails."

In this activity, you first want to make sure that you have a coin ready to be flipped.

Next, have each person in the group select their favorite character. This can be any character such as one from the book, a favorite super hero or cartoon. Once everyone has decided on their favorite character, have everyone also choose a favorite animal like a lion or a zebra.

Then, once everyone in the group has a favorite character and favorite animal selected, you flip a coin. Each person will get an individual turn, and if it lands on heads for their turn, they should act like the favorite character that they chose. If the coin lands on tails, the person should act like the favorite animal that they chose.

Make sure that everyone gets a chance to act out both their favorite character, and their favorite animal. Once you act out one, switch it with something else. For example, if the coin landed on tails, and you acted out a lion, switch to a different animal so that way you can act that animal out if you were to get tails again.

The goal of this activity is to practice if else statements, so you can have a person take multiple turns, because if else statements do not always end after one go through. For example, you could have someone go until they get tails if they get multiple heads in a row or vice versa.

Next, you can take on the two extra challenges to add to your Turtle Map program and learn more! When you're done, you can move on to Level 4, the Class Introductions program!

1. Challenge 1: Add a score to the game, so you can try to get all the questions right. When the game ends, display the score!

2. Challenge 2: Make the text of the answer choices turn red and green to show which one is the correct answer, as a visual feedback effect.

In addition to this page and the instructions for our Level 3 challenges, we also have a Help Page, Online Articles, a Learning Quiz, and a Rewards article:

• Level 3: Help - This page helps you complete the instructions in the book, in case you get stuck.

• Level 3: Online Articles - I made you a list of different web pages I found, which will help you learn more about creating Class Introductions.

• Level 3: Learning Quiz - I wrote some questions in case you want to quiz yourself about what you learned. Or you can teach others and quiz them!

• Level 3: Rewards - If you completed the Class Introductions project that we talked about, then I set up this page to act as a reward. You can see some illustrations of me and learn more about who I am! You'll also find the Apple Award digital download, to show off your accomplishment!

After you're completely done with Level 3 (did you do the challenges?), then it's time to move on to Level 4! While you read through Level 4 in your book, you can check out the resources from SideWinder, as she teaches you how to build the Space Wars game:

• Level 4: Space Wars: All Online Resources

I hope you had fun learning about Classroom Quiz! This is something that is very important for all of the future levels! Enjoy!

-- Annie