Fruit sudoku – coding on plates

Type of resource: Blog: Coding on the carpet

Web address http://kodowanienadywanie.blogspot.com/2016/09/owocowe-kodowanie-na-talerzykach.html

Language: Polish

Description

Observing, analyzing and comparing the features of friuts and vegetables

Classifying fruits according to a given feature

Learning to read and understand information expressed in the form of pictograms (simple graphic symbols).

Scientific concept introduced

Fruits, vegetables, coding, vertical line, horizontal line, concepts and words describing space (over, under, obok, on the right side, on the left, in the middle, in the corner etc.).

Creative and critical thinking

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Mathematical reasoning

Mathematical reasoning:

– grouping

– classifying and ordering

– spacial orientation

– reading information presented in symbolic form

Scientific thinking

Predicting

Identifying and solving problems

Learning how to learn

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Additional

Enriching vocabulary

Cooperating in a team (taking common decisions, sharing ideas)

Fine motor skills

Had-eye coordination

Fruit sudoku – coding on plates

Overall aims

To enrich children’s knowledge of fruits and vegetables

To strengthen the ability to observe

To develop the mathematical reasoning (classifying, ordering, segregating, understanding space and dimensions)

To develop logical thinking

To improve eye-hand coordination

To build the ability of reading symbols (understanding information expressed in symbols)

To develop social competences (working in team)

Vocabulary – keywords should be understood

Fruits, vegetables, coding, vertical line, horizontal line, concepts and words describing space (over, under, obok, on the right side, on the left, in the middle, in the corner etc.)

Expected learning outcomes (operational aims)

To name different fruits and vegetables (to link the name to an abject);

To describe characteristic features of fruits and vegetables;

To classify fruits and vegetables according to a given variable/characteristic;

To order fruits according to a given pattern/schema;

To observe and draw conclusions;

To follow the instructions of a teacher;

To understand and explain the information expressed in form of pictograms (simple symbols);

To cooperate in a team.

STEM skills – to which the learning unit is related to

CORE STEM SKILLS

Learning to think and discover (analyzing and comparing, classifying according to a given feature)

Predicting

Identifying and solving problems

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

Cooperating in a team (taking common decisions, sharing ideas);

Fine motor skills: had-eye coordination;

Enriching vocabulary.

Teaching methodologies/activity outline

1. Presenting fruits and vegetables with the question: Do you know these? ; getting to know the names, observing and explaining the characteristics, tasting and searching for the possibilities to use.

2. Fruit Sudoku

Plates can be used as fields to compose sudoku.

Choose 4 types of fruits, vegetables or leaves and compose sudoku while remembering that the same object cannot be repeated neither in horizontal, nor in vertical lines.

For 3 year old children 9 plates are enough, for older children the number of plates can be increased.

How to compose this set of fruits and vegetables on plates to make sure that every fruit or vegetable does not repeat more than once neither in horizontal, nor in vertical order?

3. Next to, on the right, on the left

Plates ad fruits can be also used to strengthen children’s understanding of space and dimensions.

Use the instructions such as: Place the apple on the left side of a pear; Move the plum from the upper left corner to the middle. Tell me where the pear is? Etc.

The level of difficulty should adjusted to the age and possibilities of children

4. Coding on plates

Using the pictograms (symbols of arrows) we can invite children to follow the coded instruction. Scripts can concern a particular type of fruit or vegetable.

Follow the instruction coded in symbols: Go to the right, Go to the left, Go up/ down etc.