Unplugged Coding: Frog Pond Programming STEM Bundle

Great coding activity!

I loved doing this unplugged coding activity with my students.

Fabulous. Always looking for unplugged "coding" activities to introduce preschoolers to computational thinking. Thank you!

I was especially interested in this resource because it dealt with loops and selection in addition to sequence. It does do all of that. It provides lots of practice opportunities and rather cleaver frog playing pieces. It also includes a directionality to moving the playing pieces - the frog has to turn before moving. That all being said, there are just fair too many grids to print out - very very thorough. In the interest of saving ink and allowing for student design, I used a blank grid and printed and cut out the marsh grass, lily pads, rocks and blue water as pieces that could then be arranged on the grid to create the different options included as well as allowing for student creativity at each level. The provided paths then were used as a starting place to introduce each level concept - sequence, looping and selection. The coding symbols for loops and selection were very helpful in presenting the concepts.