I was nervous to dive into the coder cards because I was unsure how to organize the materials for my students. @Jessica_Drayer shared a great idea at the Educator Conference: to use pocket charts to store and distribute the coder cards. I created a printable version of the coder cards and used them to label the pockets. Here is what I came up with:
What do you use to organize your coder cards?
I would LOVE to see what is working for other teachers!
Love this, great share!
I’m going to tag another post that discusses ways to store VEX 123 Coder Cards: Coder Cards
These are great! I like that it snaps shut so you are not thinking about split coder cards. I am currently using red, solo cups for the “card-getter”. This seems much more secure! Thanks for sharing!
I decided to keep it simple and use a paper cup for the group coder cards. It worked really well! I also numbered the cup, the VEX 123 robot, and coder card reader. The added accountability of assigned equipment has helped a lot with clean up!
That’s a great idea! I am a firm believer in the versatility of shoe pockets for classroom organization of so many things! I love how you’ve scaffolded your organization to meet the students’ growing capabilities, independence, and comfort with 123. This is awesome!
I was thinking of putting a set of the motion, sound, event, time, looks, and action categories in the original plastic sleeves in zipper pouches for 2nd-grade users. With 10 slots in each sleeve, I could get away with 3 sleeves per zipper pouch. The coder will be in the pouch and can hold cards, also. Has anyone tried this? I’d like to know before I spend time organizing it that way.
That sounds like it could work! I’m all for always giving students just the Coder cards they need for a project. As long as your students are comfortable using the sleeves, then that makes sense to me 
You might want to also include a printed list of what Coder cards are in the zipper pouch, so students have a way to make sure they’ve got everything put back together when they’re cleaning up.
In my own Coders, I leave the When start 123 card in the Coder all the time. That way I don’t have to worry about finding the sleeve with the smaller slot for it.
Keep us posted and let us know how this works out!
