Pin ball - Teacher Resources

Lesson Plan

1. Prepare

• Read through the student material.

2. Engage (10 Min.)

• Use the ideas in the Ignite a Discussion section below to engage your students in a discussion related to this lesson.
• Use the video to explain the lesson.

3. Explore (30 Min.)

• Have your students work in pairs to build the build the tic tac toe robot.
• Ask them to run the program to see how the robot works..

4. Explain (10 Min.)

• Organize a discussion about robot.

5. Elaborate (30 Min.)

• Ask students to work on the solutions they like best.
• Don't forget to leave time for cleaning

6. Evaluate

• Give feedback on each student's performance.

Ignite a Discussion

Start by watching the video

Discuss the game, what to do, how to play. Has anyone played pinball. How to score points in this game.

Discuss game strategy. What is the best way to place a bet. For example, if this is the first move, then it can be risky to bet everything, since the opponent may guess that you decided to finish everything in one move. And when these are subsequent moves, then the number of bets is not 50 to 50, for example, we have 7 points, in which case we have even bets 0,2,4,6 where zero is not counted as this is a tactical way to skip a move, because in case of victory or no one loses anything. so we have 3 even bets and four odd bets 1,3,5,7 so the odds are higher for the player to win the odd bet, but he might also think the same way and outwit you.

Task for students

Ask the students to do the task, for the solution they will need to understand how other sensors work that count points.

Materials for students

• Pin ball - Fedor Agarshev