Directional Coding

$2.00

Fun activities to teach early learners left from right so they can apply directions in coding.

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Description

Young children need help learning their left from right. Especially when it comes time to write simple algorithms that will tell characters which direction to move. This activity gives you activities and materials for students to learn left from right and immediately apply that knowledge to their own algorithms.

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Included

This resource includes: 

  • Standards Based Lesson that outlines how to teach left and right, and apply that to coding. Standards are listed below. 
  • 2 sheets of directional cues to affix to student devices or workspaces to remind them of the directions. Choose from arrows or hands (palms facing). 
  • Digital Choice Board that can be used in Seesaw, Google, Clever, etc. Choice Board includes links to 3 directional coding apps that can be used on tablets, and links to 3 directional coding websites that can be used on computers. 
  • Directions explaining how to share the Digital Choice Board. 
  • Slideshow to guide and facilitate the lesson. The slideshow includes coding vocabulary, 2 unplugged activities to teach directions, 3 video tutorials for using directional coding apps, 3 visual choice boards that you can edit, and reflection questions.

Standards

This activity meets the following standards:

AASL

  • Problem solving through cycles of design, implementation, and reflection. 
  • Recognizing capabilities and skills that can be developed, improved, and expanded.

ISTE

  • Students understand how automation works and use algorithmic thinking to develop a sequence of steps to create and test automated solutions.

CSTA

  • Develop programs with sequences & simple loops to express ideas or address a problem 
  • Create programs that include sequences, events, loops, and conditionals
  • Test & debug a program or algorithm to ensure it runs as intended

CCSS

    • Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
    • Model with mathematics
    • Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
    • Attend to precision

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