Use these coding vocabulary activities to teach and assess coding and computational thinking!

Help your students master important vocabulary terms! Students love to code and need to acquire computer science terms to master computer science. 

If you teach coding or computer science to elementary students, you know how necessary but tricky learning coding vocabulary is. Robotics and coding games are incredibly engaging: students are creating algorithms, loops, conditionals, changing variables, and debugging in real time to make a bot or character do what they want.  

To demonstrate true understanding of coding, students also need to name what they are doing.  When they can name it, they then make more deliberate programming decisions. After downloading this resource you will receive 1 digital file and 3 printable activities for students to practice, or for you to assess coding vocabulary. This resource includes: 

• Write the coding term (provided in the word bank) to the definition image
• Write the coding term (provided in the word bank) to the definition
• Cut the coding term and paste it to the definition
• answer keys for all 3 activities
• Digital activities to use with Google Classroom™ or Slides™.

Quick Byte: This resource includes links to digital resources. They are linked on pages 3. Click the link to get your own copies. 

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