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Unplugged Activity | Real Life Algorithms:
Paper Airplanes

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This lesson is called Real Life Algorithms.

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Algorithms describe things
that people do everyday. Cookie recipes and

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directions for building a birdhouse are both
everyday algorithms. Today we're gonna make,

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create, and test an algorithm for a paper
airplane. But first, we need to break this

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big project into easy to follow small steps.
For making a paper airplane, we need to decide

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what steps to take and in what order to take
them. You'll create your algorithm by first

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cutting apart the pictures. Next, you'll select
the 6 pictures that show the steps needed

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to make a paper airplane and arrange those
pictures in the correct order. After you have

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everything in order, you will trade algorithms
with another student team to test out the

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algorithm to see if the algorithm works. A
well designed algorithm is super important

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to making the best paper airplane.

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When we want to make chocolate, there are many big

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steps to that process. And each of those big
steps has its own set of smaller steps. And

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there are different recipes, or algorithms,
depending on how we want the chocolate to

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taste. Each step is important, even the small
ones. So without one step, the rest of them

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cannot be completed. Creating algorithms that
others can understand is really important.

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That's why each step has to be written down,
so no matter who does it, the result is the same.