Week 03 · Count With a Box
Friday
Build counting flights
// A steps box counts every round
⏱ about 15 min
Flight day, Code Crew!
Rocket has a surprise for the crew.
Today you write two counting flights!
Each flight has a repeat card.
There is no wrong flight today.
Every flight teaches us something new.
WARM-UP: PREDICT IT
- Read the start, rounds, and change.
- Tap the answer.
set steps to 1
repeat 2 times:
change steps by 1
?
set steps to 0
repeat 4 times:
change steps by 2
say steps
?
Rocket shows an example
set steps to 0 set height to 2 fly up height repeat 3 times: move right change steps by 1
Nova flies up 2 spaces.
Then Nova moves right 3 times.
The steps box counts to 3!
What do you notice?
The repeat runs every card under it.
Where you put it changes the flight!
Nova will fly it
You get five cards. Pick four.
Put them in any order.
Press play and watch Nova count!
BUILD A COUNTING FLIGHT
CREATIVE · NOT GRADED- Drag four cards into the slots.
- Press play to watch.
1line 1
2line 2
3line 3
4line 4
You wrote a counting flight!
Did Nova count the way you planned?
If not, that is a clue. Try again!
Flight number two!
This time the count box beeps.
Can you make Nova beep 5 times?
BUILD FLIGHT NUMBER TWO
CREATIVE · NOT GRADED- Drag four cards into the slots.
- Press play to watch.
1line 1
2line 2
3line 3
4line 4
What a flight!
You built two counting flights!
Show someone your program.
Predict the final number together.
Tomorrow is Crew Quest day!