Children can learn about coding and building algorithms with this set of otter-themed coding gameboards. They will create a path that connects the word Start to the word End on each gameboard. The boxes will be connected with arrows. The set contains arrows you can print and cut out. Your children can also draw the arrows needed for the coding algorithm path. Although there is more than one way to complete some the algorithm game boards, only one path is shared on the answer key.
Getting Ready for the Coding Algorithm Activity
Printing Out the Otter Coding Algorithm Game Boards
This set of Otter Learn About Coding Algorithm Game Boards has been saved in PDF format. After downloading the set, you will need to have a PDF reader on your computer to open them. You will find that the coding algorithm boards have colored graphics. They don’t have to be printed out in color. After selecting print, you will need to select grayscale as your printing preference.
Building Background
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You may want to read your children a book about otters. I was recently sent the books Archer Otters and Archer Otters: Megalodon Outbreak. They would be fun to read to your children. Below you will find links to those books and a few more books about otters.
Exploring the Otter Game Boards
You will find that some of the game boards offer a number of ways that your children complete the game boards. Here is how you could introduce your children to the game boards.
- First, you can work through a part of a game board with your children. It will help them understand how to place the arrows in the boxes. Remember that the arrows should point in the direction they will need to go to move from the box they are in into the next box to get around the otters. They need to begin at the word Start and finish in the box that will lead them to the End box.
- Second, you can give your students the answer key and see if they can replicate it on their own board.
- Third, children can work with a partner to complete the gameboard. They can take turns placing the arrows in the squares.
More Algorithm Activities to Explore
A number of algorithm activities exist here on my blog and on my Teachers Pay Teacher shop. Below you will see a few of them.
Halloween Words on Algorithm Game Boards
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish Algorithm Page
Offline Coding Academy -Muffin Tin Algorithm
How to Make Liquid Starch Slime Algorithm
Disclaimer: I was sent the Archer Otters book along with a Woodrow & The Bees book to review. I really enjoyed all of the books and decided to create algorithm game boards based on the otter books.
