Smart Start Beginning Coding book. The title is at the top over a forest trees and blue sky background. A brown and yellow owl in the middle is perched on a branch surrounded by 3 small yellow, blue, and black birds.
Smart Start Beginning Coding book open to show inside pages. The white pages have a green top border with titles inside. The left page, titled “No Playing in the Rain,” shows a story with illustrations about a girl playing with blocks inside with her grandpa when it’s raining outside. The right page, titled “When it Rains,” shows illustrations and has you circle pictures pertaining to the story on the left.
Smart Start Beginning Coding book open to show inside pages. The white pages have an orange top border with titles inside. The left page, titled “Draw a Loop,” has 2 empty boxes for you to draw a dance move in each, then has you “loop” the dance move a certain number of times. The right page, titled “Counting Loops,” shows illustrations of children doing dance moves. You are to count how many times the kids loop each dance move.
Smart Start Beginning Coding book open to show inside pages. The white pages have a blue top border with titles inside. The left page, titled “Bike Ride,” shows 3 steps of illustrations of a girl putting on her helmet, getting a bike, and riding the bike. You are to mark the picture with a mistake and draw the correction. The right page, titled “Wrong Toy Box,” shows several toys and toy boxes. You are directed to draw a line from the toy to the correctly labeled toy box.
Smart Start Beginning Coding book open to show inside pages. The white pages have a blue top border with titles inside. The left page, titled “Cars, Planes, and Bugs,” shows rows of icons in colored boxes. You are directed to find the mistake, or “bug,” in the pattern. The right page, titled “To the Station,” shows a train with train tracks. You are instructed to cut track pieces out from the bottom and fix the parts of track that are broken, so the train can get to the station.
Smart Start Beginning Coding book open to show inside pages. The white pages have a blue top border with titles inside. The left page, titled “Toy Train,” shows an illustration of a girl and a boy playing with a toy train. There is a story about the 2 children putting a train together, finding a problem, and fixing it. The right page, titled “Mistake in the Track,” has you discuss portions of the train story and indicated the picture associated with the train story.

Smart Start Beginning Coding - Grade 1

Beginning Coding's colorful activities teach computer science concepts and skills and help your students become critical thinkers.

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Complete Course

Complete Course

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In a Curriculum Kit

In a Curriculum Kit

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Smart Start Beginning Coding - Grade 1

 

Build a strong computer science foundation screen-free with Beginning Coding, 1st Grade. Colorful and fun hands-on activities help children make real-world connections to coding. 

 

Beginning Coding connects coding concepts to life with games and puzzles that introduce basic coding rules. Based on the K–12 Computer Science Framework, Beginning Coding is organized into themed units of algorithms, decomposition, sequencing, pattern, debugging, loops, and conditionals. If these are not familiar terms to you now, they will be when your child finishes this course. 

 

The computer science concepts and skills taught through Beginning Coding will help your students become critical thinkers by learning how to break down complex problems into smaller ones. They will also connect similar issues and realize that the order in which things happen is essential. 

 

Help your early learner become a critical thinker with the computer science concepts and skills taught through Beginning Coding.

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