Grade 1 Coding: Sequential Superstars

Your students become programmers, navigators, and code surgeons in this hands-on five-day unit that brings sequential thinking and spatial reasoning to life. Starting with partner games where they give precise directions to move across a grid, your Grade 1 learners move quickly into writing arrow-symbol codes, executing them with figurines, and troubleshooting when things go wrong. By mid-week, your students use coding sequences on number grids to solve addition problems—turning abstract math into movement and discovery. The unit culminates in a summative challenge where students write code to navigate from start to finish, then adapt their entire sequence when an obstacle suddenly appears. Throughout, your students practise positional language (forward, backward, left, right), learn that order matters in sequences, and discover that there are often multiple ways to solve the same problem.