Extend Your Learning

To expand this activity, ask your students to pair up into teams and create a sketch of a maze for another team to complete. The maze should require a minimum of three to five conditional statements. For example, continue forward until there is a wall. Then, turn left. The students should write a solution to the maze in flowchart form. Students should then trade mazes with another team who should, in turn, create a solution to the maze in flowchart form. The two teams should then compare answers to see how closely they match.

To relate this activity to online or mobile games, ask your students to describe the goal of their favorite game/app. Then have students create a flowchart that outlines the first ten yes/no or true/false decisions that they follow in their game.