Karel Adventures

What Students Will Learn

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UNITS - 7 (49 lessons)

• Karel's Coding Environment

  Introduces students to the Karel coding environment by having them explore, modify, and write simple movement programs.

• The Rabbit Chase

  Teaches sequencing and basic control structures as students program Karel through a rabbit-chase story involving walls, bridges, and painting.

• Lost in Space

  Introduces if statements, if/else statements, and while loops as students guide Karel through a space-themed adventure involving asteroids, fires, and tracking a target.

• Karel Adventures 1 Evaluation

  Assesses students' mastery of while loops and if statements and challenges them to design their own original Karel adventure.

• Quest for the Rosetta Stone

  Advances students' control-structure skills, including if/else statements, while loops, for loops, and nested conditionals, through an Egyptian-themed adventure.

• A Day at the Park

  Teaches functions, top-down decomposition, and custom colors as students combine control structures to solve multi-step park-themed challenges.

• Karel Adventures 2 Evaluation

  Assesses students' ability to combine for loops, while loops, and if statements to complete a culminating Karel programming challenge.