codemonkey jr

La Guía del Maestro

Bienvenido a CodeMonkey Jr., el juego de codificación de CodeMonkey para niños de 4 a 6 años. CodeMonkey Jr. enseña a los niños en edad preescolar habilidades de pensamiento computacional y los conceptos básicos de la codificación mediante el uso y movimiento de bloques. En el juego, los estudiantes programarán el viaje de un monito que irá atrapando plátanos y desbloqueado cofres del tesoro.

CodeMonkey Jr.

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CodeMonkey Jr. is available on tablets and desktops. Log in to your CodeMonkey account. In the scope of this version, the game consists of four courses and two chapters in each course with a total of 120 challenges that either increase in difficulty or introduce a new concept.

The first course is free. In order to access the other courses, you will need an active subscription that includes CodeMoonkey Jr. content. Each chapter can be accessed through the map. No reading or writing is required throughout the game.

instrucciones de codificación

En el juego se enseñan las siguientes instrucciones de codificación:

Bloque

Significado

abreviatura

Moverse a la derecha Mueve al monito un cuadro a la derecha

SEÑOR

instrucción de codificación

Moverse a la izquierda Mueve al monito un cuadro a la izquierda

ML

Saltar El monito salta un cuadro hacia arriba

JU

instrucciones de codificación

Saltar a la derecha El monito salta un cuadro hacia arriba y uno hacia la derecha

JR

instrucción de codificación

Saltar a la izquierda El monito salta un cuadro hacia arriba y uno hacia la izquierda

JL

instrucción de codificación

Circuito Repite el código hasta que alcanzas la meta. Después de agregar un circuito a la línea, cada nuevo bloque que se toque se colocará después del circuito. Para agregar una instrucción al circuito los estudiantes deben arrastrarla hasta el bloque del circuito.

LP

conditional loops

Conditional Circuito Repeats code until the monkey reaches a flower with the same color as in the loop block. After adding a loop to the line, every new block that will be tapped will be placed after the loop. To add an instruction to the loop, students need to drag it into the loop block.

CLP(color)

procedures

Procedures: Invoke blocks inside a procedure when the monkey stops on a tile with a procedure. If the monkey stops on a tile without a procedure, then the challenge fails (unless the monkey reaches the treasure-chest). When there is more than one procedure in a challenge, the students will need to drag the blocks into the relevant procedure.

Square/Circle/Triangle

conceptos coputacionales

  • Secuenciación
  • Algoritmos
  • Lógica
  • Dirección / Orientación
  • Contar
  • Bucles
  • Bucles condicionales
  • Procedimientos
precodificación para niños en edad preescolar
No importa cuánta o poca experiencia en codificación tengan usted y sus estudiantes, CodeMonkey es atractivo, entretenido y educativo

Challenges

The goal of every challenge is to program a block sequence that will take the monkey to the treasure chest and collect all the bananas without hitting any tiles or bricks.

codificación para niños de 4 a 6 años

Each challenge contains the following components:

  1. El camino – el área en la cual el monito se mueve.
  2. Área de Codificación – hacia donde los estudiantes arrastran los bloques.
  3. Catálogo de Bloques – a collection of all available blocks for the challenge

How to Solve a Challenge:

  1. Primero, los estudiantes deben pensar en cómo programar la secuencia de bloques correcta.
  2. Then, they should tap or drag the desired blocks in order to build the sequence. When tapping, the block will go to the first vacant spot in the coding area or after a loop block. 
  3. Para cambiar el orden de las instrucciones en el área de codificación, deberán arrastrar los bloques.
  4. Para que el código creado se ponga en acción, apretarán "Reproducir" 
  5. If the monkey reaches the goal, the score will appear and the student can move to the next challenge. If the monkey does not reach the goal, they can tap replay and correct their code. 

Partes:

El juego se construye en un orden consecutivo, donde cada tema se basa en el anterior. La versión actual incluye las siguientes partes:

  1. Sequencing & Loops
    a. Sequencing
    b. Loops
  2. Advanced Sequencing & Loops
    a. Advanced Sequencing
    b. Advanced Loops
  3. Bucles condicionales
    a. Conditional Loops
    b. Advanced Conditional Loops
  4. Procedimientos
    a. Procedures
    b. Advanced Procedures

Once the students complete the first chapter- Sequencing, they can continue to Loops or to Advanced Sequencing. 

Once the students complete the chapter – Loops, they can continue to Conditional Loops, Procedures or Advanced Loops.


Advanced Conditional Loops challenges are unlocked once completing Conditional Loops challenges.


Advanced Procedures challenges are unlocked once completing Procedures challenges.

Sequencing & Loops

Parte 1 – Secuenciación

The first chapter is designed to introduce students to the game environment, rules and interface.  It also teaches sequencing, or the order of instructions. In this chapter, students will get to know the different block instructions available in the game. The challenges within this chapter start from basic challenges that teach the game interface such as how to use the coding area to challenges that teach sequencing. In this chapter, students will also have to count the number of steps and differentiate between directions.

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Chapter 2 – Loops

The second chapter will introduce students to the concept of loops, specifically how and why to use them. This chapter starts from a long repeating sequence that demonstrates the benefit of using loops, then sequences that are too long to solve without a loop. This leads students to understand the need and the rationale for using loops, and the Loop block is introduced. The loop ends when the monkey reaches the treasure chest, so any block after the loop will not be executed. All challenges in this chapter will be solved using a single loop.

cm junior loops

Advanced Sequencing & Loops

Chapter 1 – Advanced Sequencing

After completing the sequencing chapter, students will know how to build a sequence of instructions leading the monkey to the treasure chest. In this chapter, the challenges require moving in both directions to reach the goal. Students will use advanced counting abilities for going back and forth and combining both directions in a single sequence of instructions.

advanced sequencing

Chapter 2 – Advanced Loops

This chapter combines sequences and loops.  Specifically, the solutions for challenges in this chapter require students to program several instructions that happen before the loop and then the loop itself. For example, in the following challenge (2-4), students need to program a sequence to first pick up the banana on the right and then a sequence for going to the treasure chest on the left. To get to the treasure chest, students will need to use a loop.

JR – JR – MR – MR – JL – JL-LOOP [ML]

advanced loops
advanced loops

Bucles condicionales

Chapter 1 – Conditional Loops

The first chapter will introduce students to the concept of conditional loops. This chapter includes a flower along the monkey’s path. The students need to add the loop block and then add the blocks inside the loop. Before running the blocks inside the loop, the computer checks if the monkey reached the flower with the same color as in the loop. If yes, then the loop ends and the blocks after the loop are executed. If not, then the blocks inside the loop are executed. Students need to make sure that the blocks inside the loop take the monkey to a flower and not pass the flower or they will end up in an endless loop.. All challenges in this chapter will be solved using a single loop.

Chapter 2 – Advanced Conditional Loops

The second chapter will include challenges with more than one conditional loop. The monkey’s path will include two or three flowers. In some challenges the students will need to go back and forth to get the bananas. Some challenges will include two or three flowers of the same color.

Procedimientos

Chapter 1 – Procedures

The first chapter will introduce students to the concept of procedures. In this course, the monkey’s path is filled with different procedures – Square, Circle and/or Triangle. The students need to drag blocks to the procedures. When clicking on Play, the first procedure is called. If the monkey lands on another procedure after all blocks in the previous procedure are executed, then the next procedure is called and so on until the monkey reaches the treasure chest. Most challenges will include 2 procedures, some will have 3 procedures.

Chapter 2 – Advanced Procedures

This chapter includes more advanced challenges with procedures. Students will need to go one direction first to get the bananas and then the other direction to get to the treasure chest.

advanced procedures

Puntuación de estrellas

Upon completion of a challenge, students can get anywhere between one to three stars.

  • Una estrella – The monkey got to the treasure chest but one or more of these happened:
    – did not collect all the bananas
    – bumped into tiles or bricks
    – did not code all procedures.
  • Dos estrellas  – The monkey got to the treasure chest with all the bananas and without bumping into anything but did not use the shortest code possible.
  • Tres estrellas – The monkey got to the treasure chest, collected all the bananas, did not bump into anything and used the shortest code possible.

CodeMonkey Jr. en tu salón de clases

We recommend four courses of a total of 29 lessons lasting 35 minutes. Part of the lessons will be theoretical and others practical by playing CodeMonkey Jr. Si tienes preguntas o comentarios escríbenos a info@codemonkey.com

¡Buena suerte!