Step It Out, Break It Down with Lyla in the Loop
Looking for a fun animated show that can help kids from prekindergarten through fifth grade develop computational thinking skills? Lyla in the Loop is just the show you’re looking for, designed to encourage kids to use their innate creativity and learn to think like a coder to tackle challenges while having fun and help get kids excited about the building blocks of computer science. In this PBS Kids’ series, Lyla Loops and her fantastical blue sidekick, Stu, use creative problem-solving and computational thinking to help their family, friends, and community. From building homemade carnival games, to learning the steps of a line dance, to creating a new sandwich for the Loops family’s restaurant, Loops Lunch, Lyla, Stu, and the whole Loops crew use step-by-step problem-solving skills to tackle challenges with equal servings of humor and heart. Lyla can help kids in the classroom, homeschoolers, and youngsters looking for after-school entertainment build computational and problem-solving skills such as sequencing, recognizing patterns, and using logic, and by helping them learn how to break big tasks down into manageable pieces that can be tackled individually while learning to collaborate with others as well. Young patrons and educators alike can find episodes of Lyla
