Creating Patterns

Description

In this activity, learners use the Weavly scene as their virtual drawing canvas. Learners can use directional navigation in a coding environment to draw a design and create a patterned motif. The process of creating various drawings and patterns on the scene encourages the use of directions and enables free-form creation. The interactive and visual component helps learners identify cause and effect as well as inspire creativity in their coding creations.

Some example of drawings/designs created into patterned motif:

• Rose
• Ninja Star
• Eight-sided Star

Steps

• Open the Weavly coding environment.
• Ensure the pen toggle feature is on.
• Add a loop action block to your program. Refresh and move your character to the middle of the scene.
• Add a few different action blocks inside your loop. Press play to draw your design/shape.
• In the loop number field, adjust the number of times you want this program to be repeated. (Choose a minimum of 3 to be able to notice the effects of a repeated pattern)

Tips

• Ask learners to use the arrow keys on the right panel in the Weavly coding environment to move their on-screen character to the middle of their scene (for example cell E4). This will give your character more room to create a drawing.
• Modelling this activity first and showing learners how to use different action blocks particularly the loop block can help learners with little to no coding experience to participate.

Skill Development

• Spatial
• Sequencing
• Directional skills
• Creativity

Level Up!

• Ask learners to replace and/or action blocks in their sequence using the action panel