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Kindergarten · Science · Unit 10 of 10

Follow the Steps

Directions, order and code

What your child practises

Unplugged coding: words like up, down, left, right, above and below, following arrow instructions in order, and fixing mistakes in a set of steps.

Ontario Curriculum expectation: B11.1–B11.3 · using directional and positional words, putting steps in order, and testing and fixing instructions

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    A set of steps for a robot to follow is called…

    🤖
    • a snack
    • code
    • a sound
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    code

    Hint: Steps that tell a robot or computer what to do are called code.

  2. Question 2

    Which word tells you where the door is? “The door is beside the window.”

    • beside
    • quickly
    • yellow
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    beside

    Hint: Beside tells where. It means next to.

  3. Question 3

    Which arrow points up?

    • ⬆️up
    • ⬅️left
    • ⬇️down
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    ⬆️ up

    Hint: Up points toward the sky.

  4. Question 4

    Which word is the opposite of up?

    • down
    • forward
    • sideways
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    down

    Hint: Up and down are opposites.

  5. Question 5

    A robot's steps did not work. What do you do?

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    • Do the same steps again
    • Give up
    • Test it, find the mistake and fix it
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    Test it, find the mistake and fix it

    Hint: Coders test their steps and fix mistakes. This is called debugging.

  6. Question 6

    Put the steps for washing hands in order.

    • 🧻Dry
    • 🫧Scrub
    • 🚿Rinse
    • 💧Wet your hands
    • 🧼Add soap
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    Wet your hands → Add soap → Scrub → Rinse → Dry

    Hint: Wet, soap, scrub, rinse, then dry.