Space Coders educates Kindergarten to Grade 2 students in the fundamentals of coding; an essential and integral element in children’s STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Math) education today that teaches kids vital skills in an ever-increasing tech-integrated world.
Space Coders is a Free Resource for Preschool to K3 teachers to teach young children coding skills and computation thinking who might not have the resources to hand and specialist training.
Space Coders empowers pre-school to Grade 3 students the fundamentals of coding; an essential and integral element in children’s STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Math) education today; teaching kids vital skills for an ever-increasing tech-integrated future.
- 1.Game Play (6o Progressive Levels)
- 2.Professional Development Course (8 Hours of Video Tutorials / Unplugged Activities)
- 3.Creator Studio (Interactive Tools to Create Your Own Game Play Maps)
- • Creativity & problem solving
- • Strategy, communication & collaboration
- • Cognitive skills and counting
- • Computational thinking…teaching young minds how to think
- • Logic, efficiency and pattern recognition
- • Understanding & breaking down complex problems
- • How algorithms work & how they are applied
- • Analysis and goal-setting
- • Tech-literacy
- • Self-development & self-esteem
Each planet (module) of Space Coders consists of 10 maps for students to solve by building algorithms using increasing complex computational thinking skills. Difficulty level scaffolds so that once a skill is mastered, it is practiced in each increasing level of play.
- • Planet 1: Using directions
- • Planet 2: Using numbers and counting
- • Planet 3: Using loops and conditions
- • Planet 4: Using triggered event and conditions
- • Planet 5: Using triggered events and conditions
- • Planet 6: Using “if/then” events and conditions
As students complete the modules, they learn number sense, patterns and sequences, decomposing and composing algorithms, and debugging skills.