Position Words Activities That Build Early Coding Skills

Understanding position words is an important foundation for both mathematics and in day-to-day life. This interactive robot activity helps students practice using directional language such as forward, backward, left, and right while developing their understanding of position, movement, and sequencing.

Students follow and create simple algorithms to move a robot to different locations and collect objects. By giving and interpreting step-by-step instructions, they learn how precise directions are needed for successful navigation. This hands-on activity builds confidence with spatial awareness, problem-solving, and computational thinking in an engaging, age-appropriate way.

Fun Ways to Explore Position Words for Kindergarten

This resource provides plenty of opportunities for students to practice position words for kindergarten through engaging and interactive learning experiences.

Try using it in the following ways:

• Robot programmers – Students work in pairs, with one student acting as the programmer and the other as the robot.
• Human robot challenge – Create a life-sized grid in the classroom and have students follow directions physically.
• Treasure hunts – Hide objects around the room and have students write and follow directions to find them.

Download This Position Words Activity Today

This engaging position words and coding activity is available in editable PowerPoint and Google Slides versions. Simply use the download button to access the resource and begin building students’ confidence with directions, movement, and algorithms.

Please note that you will be prompted to make your own copy of the Google Slides file before editing.

This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher from Michigan and a TeachStarter collaborator.

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