How to Hamster/A Bad Case of the Beeps
From Lyla in the Loop · 2024
24 minPre-KK1st2ndTechnologySocial-Emotional Learning
Summary
How to Hamster: Lyla researches and tests different strategies for the family's new hamster, modeling the engineering design process. A Bad Case of the Beeps: Stu starts randomly beeping and the Loops must debug the problem — testing one hypothesis at a time to find the fix.
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Discussion
Debugging means finding the cause of a problem by testing carefully.
- How did Lyla and the family figure out why Stu was beeping? What did they try first?
- Why is it important to change only ONE thing at a time when you are testing?
- Think of a time something went wrong. How did you figure out the cause?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: debug, test, hypothesis, cause, fix.
Try it: Think of a broken rule in a game you know. What is one thing you could change to fix it? Test it with a friend!