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Nicole Fenty, Binghamton University - Sequencing Nursery Rhymes through Early Coding in Preschool Settings
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- The Academic Minute
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- Apr 17, 2026
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- 150
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Summary
Simple materials can teach STEM principles and help students engage with learning. Nicole Fenty , associate professor and chair of the Teaching, Learning and Educational Leadership Department at the College of Community and Public Affairs at Binghamton University , discusses several examples. Faculty Bio: Nicole Fenty joined the Department of Teaching, Learning, & Education Leadership as an assistant professor in 2012. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of South Florida and her master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Florida. She has worked as a special education teacher in elementary schools in the state of Florida. Transcript: STEM education has become a priority for students over the last decade, with concepts such as coding and problem solving now viewed as important across many career pathways. A central area of focus for me is how these concepts can be taught in ways that young learners can meaningfully understand. To explore this, I worked with two students from our doctoral and undergraduate education minor programs respectively, Leyli Yeganeh and Vanessa Uhteg, to examine how early coding concepts could be integrated into classroom literacy instruction. We partnered with two preschool teachers to work with four of their students who were struggling to sequence stories. Because sequencing is a foundational skill in both literacy and coding, we designed an instructional activity using the familiar nursery rhyme “Jack and Jill.” The activities we used were simple and involved hands-on materials - a poster board divided into a grid with tape, picture cards representing four parts of the story, and directional arrows. These tools allowed students to place events in order while also learning basic coding vocabulary such as “grid,”…