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Teacher Guide Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

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Beginner – First Trip
Exploring the red and green action bricks

Learning Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 

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Beginner – Train Sound
Exploring sequencing and the blue, yellow,and white action bricks

Intermediate – O-Shaped Track
Exploring loops with the O-shaped track

Intermediate – Y-Shaped Track
Exploring conditional statements with theY-shaped track

Intermediate – Character – Caterpillar (App)Exploring storytelling and social emotional development

Intermediate – Music – Animal Concert (App)Using digital tools to design and express ideas

Advanced – Journey – Troubles on the Road (App)Practicing problem-solving

Advanced – Math – Distance (App)Making predictions and measuring distances2

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CODING EXPRESS
Teacher Guide Introduction
Who is the material for?
The Coding Express Teacher Guide is designed to help kindergarten teachers develop
students’ understanding of cause and effect relationships, and early coding concepts, such as
sequencing, looping, and conditional statements. Using these lessons, you’ll support thestudents’ learning, helping them to practice early coding skills, like problem-solving,
computational thinking, and using digital tools to design and express ideas. At the same time,they’ll be developing early literacy and language skills.

What is it for?
Designed for kindergartners, the Coding Express Set uses a relevant theme that naturally
incorporates early coding skills. Working with the set, students will intuitively use
computational thinking to develop designs and express ideas as they build a train and tracks,
and position action bricks to affect the train’s behavior.
The Coding Express Teacher Guide provides fun and engaging opportunities for exploring
early coding-related concepts. Using the Teacher Guide, you can facilitate engaging earlycoding lessons in which students think like digital age learners as they build train tracks ofvarious shapes. Most importantly, the physical and digital lessons will help students to become
problem-solvers by enhancing their creativity, collaboration, and communication skills.

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Getting Started

What is it?
The Coding Express set includes 234 bricks and the following support materials:
1. A “Getting Started” activity card
Use these five quick steps to introduce students to the unique elements of the set, including
the train engine, train tracks, and action bricks.
2. An Introduction Guide
A complete overview of the Coding Express solution, the app, the building cards, how tostart the train engine, and where to download the Teacher Guide.
3. A Coding Express posterAn overview of the action brick’s behaviors and inspiration for different ways of setting up
the train tracks.
4. Six Building Cards
These two-sided cards show a variety of inspiration models; the green-sided cards show
simple models and the blue-sided cards show more challenging models.

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Learning Objectives
Early Technology & Science:

Coding Express | 45025 | Ages 3-6 | For 2-6 children
This Getting Started activity card will help you introduce the Coding Express set to your preschoolers. The activities
are designed to familiarize children with the unique elements of the set, which include a train engine and action bricks.
After completing some or all of these activities, you can download the Teacher Guide for more in-depth activities
related to early coding skills.

• Exploring and using simple technology

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1. Demonstrate how to lay the trackpieces. Let the children discover
the different shapes the tracks canmake. Encourage them to experimentwith the track switches and red rail
stoppers. Have them build a trackwith three or four different end points.
2. Choo-choo! Introduce the trainengine. Demonstrate how to start andstop the engine, then have each childtake a turn starting and stopping it.
Show them how to move the engine
from one end of the track to the otherso that everyone can have a turn.
3. Show the children how to positionthe action bricks along the train track.
Ask them to lay one of the action
bricks on the track and then start theengine. Have them describe what
they observe when the engine goesover the action bricks. Repeat this forall of the action bricks and then let thechildren experiment with the bricks infree play.

4. Show the children the building
cards one at a time and ask them todescribe what they see. Ask whether
they have been to any of the places
shown on the cards and to recounttheir experiences. Have the children
work together to build at least threeof the places shown on the building
cards.

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TEACHER TIPSGETTING STARTED

to help• The building cards provide inspiration
the children build their models.
models.
Green cards – less challenging
Blue cards – more challenging models.
their own• They can also design and buildunique models.

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AGES 2-5

let’s build on everychild’s natural curiosity

FOR 3-6 CHILDREN

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in-depth activities related to early

LEARNING OBJECTIVESFive steps to a great start:pieces.
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Early Technology & Science• Exploring and using simple
technology• Understanding cause and effect• Making predictions and observations• Developing computational thinking• Developing spatial thinking

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Additionally, the Coding Express App is available to download free of charge from the App
Store and Google Play.

How are the learning objectives achieved?
In each lesson, strategic questions guide the students through the process of applying earlycoding concepts and skills, while the LEGO® DUPLO® building activities reinforce creativity,inquiry, and exploration.
Coding Express includes four lessons to be used with the physical set and four app-basedlessons.
• The physical lessons are designed to help students understand the key concepts of earlycoding: sequencing, looping, and conditional statements (if…then…)• In the app-based lessons, students apply the knowledge they’ve gained from the physicallessons and practice these skills in a more engaging way, specifically targeting the learning
areas of music, character, journey, and math.

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The table of contents gives a brief description of the topics covered in each lesson. Thelessons are labeled as beginner, intermediate, or advanced, based on the skills and knowledge
necessary to complete them. Feel free to select and adapt the lessons according to what’s
most relevant and appropriate for your kindergartners.

Lesson Structure
Each lesson is structured according to a natural learning flow, which promotes successful
learning outcomes. The Engage, Explore, and Explain phases, which are the first three phasesof each lesson, can be done in one session. The Elaborate phase is more challenging and canbe completed during a later session. The Evaluate phase summarizes the specific learning skills
covered in each lesson.

EngageDuring the Engage phase, physical games, short stories, and discussions will spark students’curiosity and activate their existing knowledge while preparing them for a new learning
experience.

ExploreIn this phase, the students will participate in a hands-on building activity. As their hands createmodels of people, places, objects, and ideas, their minds will organizeand store new information related to these structures.

Explain
During the Explain phase, students will have the opportunity to reflect on what they havedone, and to talk about and share insights they have gained during theExplore phase of the lesson.

Elaborate
New challenges in this phase build upon the concepts students learned previously in thelesson. These extension activities enable students to apply their newly-acquired
knowledge, reinforcing what they’ve learned.

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Evaluate
The Coding Express lessons have been developed using the K–12 Standards from theComputer Science Teachers Association and Common Core State Standards. They also
support the science, math, and technology guidelines from the National Association for theEducation of Young Children (NAEYC), the 21st Century Early Learning framework (P21), andthe Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework.
The learning grid below gives an overview of the learning values that are mentioned
throughout this Teacher Guide. The observation checklist at the end of each lesson can beused to determine whether each student is developing the relevant skills. These steps andbullet points target specific skills or pieces of information that are practiced or presentedduring each lesson.

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Beginner
CSTA

1A-AP-08 Model daily processes by creating and following algorithms (sets of step-by-step instructions) to complete tasks

CSTA

1A-AP-09 Model the way programs store and manipulate data by using numbers or other symbols to represent information

CSTA

1A-AP-10 Develop programs with sequences and simple loops, to express ideas or address a problem

CSTA

1A-AP-11 Decompose (break down) the steps needed to solve a problem into a precise sequence of instructions

CSTA

1A-AP-12 Develop plans that describe a program’s sequence of events, goals, and expected outcomesCCSS

ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.1 Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups

CCSS

ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.4 Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail

CCSS

ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.5 Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail

CCSS

ELA-LITERACY.L.K.5.A Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent

CCSS

ELA-LITERACY.L.K.5.B Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms)

CCSS

ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.6 Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly

CCSS

MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.C.7 Compare two numbers between 1 and 10 presented as written numerals

Intermediate

MathJourney

Music

CharacterY Shaped Track

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