Updated 9-20-20
Program on computers, iPads, laptops–whatever works, whatever age. I’ll start this list with web-based options, by grade level and then continue with a mash-up:
Kindergarten
1st grade
2nd grade
3rd grade
4th grade
5th grade
MS
Apps
- BeeBop–based on the Beebop floor robot–free
- Cargo-Bot—logic iPad game
- Cato’s Hike (K+)
- Codea (Perfect for Intermediate+)
- Daisy the Dinosaur—intro to programming
- Foos–app or desktop; K-1
- Grasshopper–coding app for beginners with lesson tutorials; intuitive
- Hopscotch (for up to intermediate–more complicated that Kodable)
- Kodable–-great for K-2–learn to code before you can read
- Lego Fix the Factory (app)
- LightBot Jr.–programming for six-year olds
- Lightbot–solving puzzles with programming; MS
- Move the Turtle–programming via iPad for middle school
- Osmo Coding--a purchased game system to teach coding
- Primo–a wooden game, for ages 4-7
- Program a human robot (unplugged)
- Pyonkee–free, a little glitchy
- ScratchJr--for ages 5-7
- Swift Playground–from Apple, includes lessons and challenges designed to teach kids to code
Build an App
- Apps Geyser
- App Inventor–build Android apps on a smartphones; from MIT
- Game Salad
- Glide–create an app from a spreadsheet
- Metaverse–create apps using Metaverse’s AR platform
- Thunkable
Coding Curriculum
- C-STEM Studio–download to teach computers, science, technology, engineering and math with robotics
- Everyone Can Code–from Apple
- Google Computer Science for High School–free workshops (with application) for K-12 teachers
- Learn to Code (for free)
- Ted-ED Think Like A Coder–a 10-episode cartoon-based series to teach kids about coding in a game format
Hour of Code
Miscellaneous
- Animatron–design and publish animated and interactive content that plays everywhere, from desktop computers to mobile devices.
- Basics of Coding–from AT&T
- BotLogic–great for Kindergarten and youngers
- BrainPop coding games
- Build a website–a guide
- Chrome Experiments–geeky experimentation with programming
- Code.org–learn to code; with teacher accounts, no student emails required (join with Join code)
- Codespace–coding curriculum
- Edabit–learn to code with interactive challenges
- Hummingbird Robotics
- I like programming video
- Kodu—game programming
- KOOV–by Sony Education
- Learn to code
- Minecraft coding mod
- Pencil Code
- Pivot Stickfigure Animator–free, download, powerful, with a cult following
- Robby Leonardi–programmer–a game played about programming in the style of Mario
- Roboblockly–to teach coding and math, from UCDavis
- Stencyl–build games without coding with downloaded software
- Stickman–draw a stick figure and the site animates it
- Symbaloo collection for coding
- TED Talk on young programmers
- Which Language Should You Learn to Code–an infographic of options
Robotics
- C-STEM Studio
- Cue–from Wonder Workshop
- Dash and Dot — from Wonder Workshop–younger thinkers
- Drones
- Mebo
- Robot Don
- Sphero
Scratch
Windows apps
Click for an Hour of Code lesson plan bundle (K-8).
Click for Robotics 101 lesson plan.
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