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Y5 LF:Use variables to draw different shapes

Nov 112019
 

Warm up

  • Check work from last week – have I left you a learning conversation?  Can you fix/finish something?   Ask if not sure.
  • Typing

Get started

1. Start a new LOGO page.  Type:

    reset
    setpensize 5

3. Draw a square:

    repeat 4 [fd 50 rt 90]

4. What do the numbers mean in this code?  4?  50?   90?

5. How could we change the numbers to get a different shape?  A triange?  A pentagon?  A hexagon?  Have a go and see what happens.

6. Type this code:

    make “sides 6
    repeat :sides [fd 50 rt 360/:sides]

7. sides is called a VARIABLE – we can change it to be any number.

8. Change the 6 to a 5 and play again.  Try some different numbers.

9.  Use this code to move to different places on the page:

    pu setxy 100 100 pd

Numbers can be from -250 to 250 (0 0 is in the middle)

10.  Can you make something like this picture – different shapes spread around the page?

11.  Think carefully: for each shape, you need lines of code for

– move to a different place
– change the variable
– draw the shape

(You can copy and paste lines of code to save time typing)

  •  11th November 2019
  •  Posted by Mr W at 11:23 am
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  •  Tagged with: coding, j2code, LOGO, Y5, Y5T2

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