Blockly Practice with Mazes

Lesson Objective

The teacher should use the blueprints provided for Lesson 5, Mazes 1-5 to assemble the 5 mazes out of PVC pipe. We recommend PVC because it is easy to work with and very child-friendly. The children can easily put together the different pieces of the PVC with the different size lengths and the connectors using the PVC elbows, couplings, and Tees. However, any materials can be used to construct these mazes. The pictures of the mazes below show measurements of each wall of the maze that the teacher will assemble. Use your pre-cut pieces of PVC pipe and connectors to make these Mazes. Please refer to Lesson 5, “Mazes 1-5” document for computer-aided pictures or create your own Mazes to let the campers practice. Campers should work in pairs.

Teacher Demonstration

1. Show the campers the 5 different mazes and explain each one
2. Explain that each camper must complete the maze in order to move on to the next maze.
3. Review commands used and learned yesterday.

• What folder were they found in? (drive)
• What commands did we use? (forwards, backward, turn left, turn right)
• Which commands do you think you will need to complete these mazes? (forwards, backward, turn left, turn right)