by Lessons for Little Ones by Tina O'Block
Price: 200 points or $2 USD
Subjects: edtech,technicalLearning,computationalThinking,holiday,christmas
Grades: 14,13,1,2,3
Description: An interactive and fun way for young students to practice and learn the basics of computer coding and programming. Students create the code for the highlighted blue path through the North Pole by dragging and dropping the arrows to the boxes. They then move the Christmas character from the box with the gold star along the path according to the code they created. This helps students learn the importance of creating each step of code in the correct sequence in order to get the the desired response and why sequence matters in a computer program. This Christmas deck provides the practice students need to get comfortable with coding so they can go on to master more challenging activities. Practicing coding also improves sequencing skills, problem-solving, logical thinking, cause and effect skills, and computational thinking. This Christmas deck includes 20 unique cards with audio directions that play in random order so each play of the deck is different. Perfect for hour of code, STEM / STEAM instruction, computer programming class, or center time.