STEM Education Series
Coding Robot
Explore coding, solve missions, make music, and design challenges, all with no screens. Snap together puzzle cards to build a map of outer space or a neighborhood, then line up instruction cards to program the robot's path.
Themed mats take coding even further. Trace the stages of a butterfly and an apple tree life cycle, compose your own melody on saxophone, accordion, piano, or violin, or plan a route to score in a soccer match. Designed to introduce robotics and coding to young learners, it is simple enough that even preschoolers can code successfully.
Coding Robot
The Big Idea
Coding means giving a machine step-by-step instructions to follow.
- Ages
- 3+Adult supervision required.
- Coding
- Logical Thinking
- Problem Solving
- Collaboration
- Fine Motor Skills
- Creative Thinking
Safety
- CHOKING HAZARD. Small parts. Not for children under 3 years.
- Adult supervision required.
What’s in the Kit
- One screen-free coding robot with charger
- Themed Exploration Mats: Butterfly Life Cycle, Apple Tree, Animals of the World, and Music Mat with four instruments
- A double-sided Design Your Own Challenge mat with a soccer field and a navigation grid
- 36 instructional coding cards and 35 double-sided puzzle cards for space and neighborhood exploration
- Full color, step-by-step instructional guide
What you add
- Nothing. Everything needed is included.
Real-world connection
Why Start Coding Without a Screen?
Every robot follows instructions written in code. With this robot, the code is a row of instruction cards, and each card is one step. Lay the cards out in order, run the program, and watch the robot follow the path. If it goes the wrong way, find the step that needs fixing and try again. That cycle of sequencing, testing, and fixing is how programmers think when they write and debug code.
Building these skills early with hands-on cards lays the foundation for later learning. As a result, when students move on to coding on a screen, ideas like order, steps, and repeating patterns already make sense.
Along the way, coding connects to science, music, and play. The robot traces the stages of a butterfly and an apple tree life cycle, plays musical notes for composing an original melody, and races to score in a soccer match. With hands-on cards instead of a screen, no devices or Wi-Fi are needed.
For classrooms
Class Packs let several small groups code at once. Each robot arrives with its own cards, mats, charger, and instructional guide, and no coding experience is needed to teach it. It is the same screen-free robot included in the Teaching STEM Through Literacy Teacher Kit.
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