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PawStepsBY PETS ON THE GREEN
KS2 · Ages 7–11
Computing
Algorithms · Sequences · Debugging

Animal Algorithms

An algorithm is just a set of steps in the right order. Looking after animals is full of them!

🎯 Learning goal: understand that an algorithm is a precise sequence of steps, build one for a care routine, and debug one that has gone wrong.

Computers follow instructions exactly and in order. If the steps are muddled, things go wrong — just like feeding an animal in the wrong order!

1 · Build the algorithm

Pick a routine, then tap the steps in order.

2 · Debug the routine

Uh oh — this feeding algorithm has one step in the wrong place. Tap the line that's the bug.

💡 For grown-ups: covers KS2 computing — designing, writing and debugging programs; that algorithms are precise ordered steps. Extend by writing a real class-pet routine as an algorithm, or adding a repeat/loop ("every morning…").