Using specially designed Learning Carpets fourth grade students use the grid to understand and manipulate basic coding sequence. Lower School teacher Sue McHugh created lines of code that students had to read and replicate by placing colored balls in the correct spots on gridded carpets. One child was the “navigator” who read the code aloud to the “driver” who followed the code and placed the colored balls in the correct spots. After they were finished, they could check their work against the answer key. As a next step, students placed the balls on the carpet and wrote their own code to get the driver from ball to ball." As a special challenge, McHugh showed the children that they could create barriers to block certain pathways and make their friends create alternate routes for arriving at the correct ball. Amanda Mitchel, GA's new Early Childhood Education specialist reported, "I thought this was a fantastic example of engaged learning."
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