Looking for an engaging way to introduce coding and computer science to 3rd grade students? This Third Grade Coding Unit helps students build foundational coding skills through unplugged activities, digital practice, and student-friendly problem solving.

This 5-day unit introduces students to key computer science concepts such as algorithms, sequences, debugging, loops, and conditionals. Students practice creating clear steps, testing their ideas, fixing mistakes, and explaining how code works. Whether you teach STEM, technology, computer science, or general education, this unit gives students a hands-on and approachable way to think like coders.

✅ What’s Included:

• 5 fully planned lessons
  Lessons include essential questions, standards, learning objectives, vocabulary, materials, activating strategies, teaching points, summarizing, support, and advanced options.
• Unplugged and digital coding activities
  Students practice coding concepts through hands-on activities, partner tasks, and digital coding practice.
• Student-friendly computer science vocabulary
  Coding terms are introduced in kid-friendly language and reinforced through repeated practice.
• Assessment prompts and reflection opportunities
  Built-in questions and SeeSaw prompts help students explain their thinking, reflect on their code, and share evidence of learning.
• Differentiation supports and enrichment extensions
  Includes scaffolds for students who need more structure and challenge options for students ready to extend their coding skills.

💡 Big Idea: Coders create, test, and improve clear instructions to solve problems and make technology work.

✨ Features:

• Essential Questions, Standards, & Objectives clearly matched to every lesson
• CSTA and ISTE-aligned computer science learning
• Hands-on unplugged coding activities
• Digital coding opportunities
• Vocabulary support for algorithms, sequences, debugging, loops, and conditionals
• Formative assessment prompts for discussion, exit tickets, or SeeSaw reflection
• Differentiation supports and advanced extensions included in each lesson
• Easy to use for 30–40 minute lessons