Full paid curriculum packages are also now available for teachers interested in more extensive, yearlong lessons.
Kodable continues to add more features and options as it grows in popularity, including teacher accounts where we can enroll full classes and track their progress. It is highly kid-friendly, developmentally appropriate, and engaging, with courses that slowly increase in difficulty from Sequence and Algorithms, to Conditional Expressions, to Loops and Patterns and beyond. To play Kodable, students drag and drop a series of commands to get a lovable little “fuzz ball” through a maze, attempting to collect coins along the way. The app itself is free, with more levels unlocked if a teacher has created a class account on their website. Kodableīy far, my favorite app for teaching Pre K, Kindergarten, and First Grade students the basics of block coding is Kodable. I like to offer my students a variety of websites, apps, and coding toys during the Hour of Code. (Graphic from The second week of December is dedicated to the “Hour of Code,” during which students around the world spend a full hour practicing programming in a variety of ways. Here are just a few of the many benefits of teaching our students to code: More importantly, programming is a profession that continues to rapidly grow in demand in our workforce, and by introducing our kiddos to the basics, we are opening new doors for possible passions, interests, and career paths in STEM fields. Fluency in coding is necessary in order to design apps, software, websites, video games, and so much more. Coding is all the rage in elementary schools right now, and it’s not hard to see why! Coding, or the language of programming, is quickly becoming a language that our students need to learn how to “speak,” even as young as Kindergarten.
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