Bryneven Primary's Mr Bradley Simulated Sunsets with Gr 3
Bryneven Primary introduces a 2Simple's Purple Mash coding lesson. It's a 30-minute lesson with 9-year-olds. In this lesson, we model the alternation of the appearance and disappearance of objects using a timer.
The goal is to provide and identify the conversion from day to night. We explore the basic logic with a timer. The timer controls time and other objects which are dragged into the code section. Their positioning gives logic - which is the main point of the lesson.
Five seconds is the point to brings a transformation; initiating a change into a yellow background. With an interval of 10 seconds - the background changes colour, thanks to the work of another control timer. That is, the second interval causes the background property to change colour, it becomes black.
This is an experience with Grade 3 students. At first, I thought this activity would be difficult for them. However, many students have completed the task using their knowledge after first viewing this presentation. Nearly half of the class passed the fifth challenge.
Mr Bradley is a GDE teacher; working for the department of education at Bryneven Primary School in Johannesburg South Africa. Bryneven primary school has been using Purple Mash for over two years. We look forward to future developments -having more teachers using it in their lessons.