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Title:Purple Mash Snail Race tutoring Ziyande

DESCRIPTION:
The ‘background’ of this lesson -builds on the learner experience around: basic movement using the mouse -to drag code blocks. These are placed in the orange sections in the coding section. The trigger is setting off the competition -through an appropriate event (on click).

In this lesson we work together -constructing a system of objects moving- based on the trigger. That is the clicking on the background -which starts the snail race. This lesson explores movement, through the snail race. There speed of these snails are measured in steps.

The ‘snail movement’ across a race course (our background). Initial designated speeds are supplanted by the random number -which brings in the idea of automation i.e., in that the computer will assign a number. I can see how this lesson could fit into a mathematics lesson -with Grade 4-7 learners, graphing the outcome of various snail races. The importance of this is to see the germ of something more than it is plainly perceived to be.

Mr ECM Bradley is a Gauteng Department of Education teacher at Bryneven Primary School, Johannesburg South Africa.

LINK TO VIDEO:
https://youtu.be/dHlscGBdyxQ

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Title:Bryneven Coding html with Purple Mash links to pages

DESCRIPTION:
The 6th html lesson: explores the way different web pages link up together, in an intricate web. We look at the basic structure (header, body etc) of the html files -which are appropriately named -to be read by the machine’s browser. We emphasize the extension viz., the htm in the file name.

We also incorporate the anchor and its properties (href=) to create hyperlinking capabilities. Thereupon it knows and communicates with its related pages -in the system of interconnected part. Its a build on all our previous lessons creating an integrated system that works and connects through linking.

We focus on bringing some of the creative work -embedded, or extracted from our Purple Mash work- into our html files. These form the features of colourful delight within the body of the specific pages i.e., movie, game and home page.

This lesson took place on the 15th of August, Thursday, with a junior and senior coding class.

Mr ECM Bradley is a Gauteng Department of Education teacher at Bryneven Primary School, Johannesburg South Africa.

LINK TO VIDEO:
https://youtu.be/pYRb6HH8RTY