Websites and Apps to Support Hour of Code

We’ve provided a lot of projects and lesson plans, as well as websites you’ll like organized by grade. Here are all those that don’t easily differentiate by grade. See if some of them work for you:

Websites

1. Animatron–design and publish animated and interactive content that plays everywhere, from desktop computers to mobile devices.
2. BrainPop coding games
3. Build a website–a guide
4. Chrome Experiments–geeky experimentation with programming
5. I like programming video
6. Kodu—game programming
7. Learn to code
8. Minecraft coding mod
9. Pivot Stickfigure Animator–free, download, powerful, with a cult following
10. Robby Leonardi–programmer–a game played about programming in the style of Mario
11. Roboblockly–to teach coding and math, from UCDavis
12. Stencyl–build games without coding with downloaded software
13. Stickman–draw a stick figure and the site animates it
14. Symbaloo collection for coding
15. TED Talk on young programmers

Apps

1. BeeBop–based on the Beebop floor robot–free
2. Cargo-Bot—logic iPad game
3. Cato’s Hike (K+)
4. Codea (Perfect for Intermediate+)
5. Daisy the Dinosaur—intro to programming
6. Hopscotch (for up to intermediate–more complicated that Kodable)
7. Kodable
8. Lego Fix the Factory (app)
9. LightBot Jr.–programming for six-year olds
10. Lightbot–solving puzzles with programming; MS
11. Move the Turtle–programming via iPad for middle school
12. Osmo Coding--a purchased game system to teach coding
13. Pyonkee–free, a little glitchy
14. ScratchJr--for ages 5-7
15. Swift Playground–from Apple, includes lessons and challenges designed to teach kids to code

Build an app/game

1. Apps Geyser
2. App Inventor–build Android apps on a smartphones; from MIT
3. Game Salad

Code Curriculum

1. C-STEM Studio–download to teach computers, science, technology, engineering and math with robotics
2. Everyone Can Code–from Apple
3. Google Computer Science for High School–free workshops (with application) for K-12 teachers

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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice reviewer, CAEP reviewer, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today and TeachHUB, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.