10 Ways to Teach Kids to Code

1. Mazes(age 4-8)

Little Codr cards

littlecodr.com

2. Board Games(age 4-12+)

Robot Turtles (4+)

www.thinkfun.com/media-center/robot-turtles

Code Master (8+)Code Monkey Island (8-12)

3. Hour of Code(age 6-12+)

Resourcescode.org (age 6+)

Tynker (age 7+)Made With Code (age 12+)

Games & programs kids can makeMinecraft Hour of Code (age 6+)

Code with Anna and Elsa (age 8+)The Foos (age 5–10)

4. Animation(age 8-16)

Scratch (8-16)

scratch.mit.edu

Scratch Cards (age 8–16)Hopscotch — for iPad (age 10+)

5. make a site(age 8+)

Kahn Academy (age 8+)Code School (age 13+)Codecademy (age 13+)

6. Learn a Language(age 6+)

Bitsbox (6-16)

bitsbox.com

Code Cards (age 7+)JavaScript for Cats (all ages!)

7. Foster Interests(all ages!)

Contestskidscodingcontest.com

imaginecup.comtwitter.com/hopscotch

CoursesKhan Academy

Codecademy.comPluralsight.com

Minecraft — Youthdigital (age 8–14)iD Tech Robotics (age 6–9)

Wearables — Jewelbots (age 8+)

8. Hardware(age 7+)

Arduino — littleBits (age 8+)Raspberry Pi (age 7+)

Lilypad (age 10+)

9. Robots(age 4+)

Bitsbox (6-16)

www.modrobotics.com/cubelets

Lego Mindstorms (age 10+)Sphero SPRK (age 10+)

10. Teach(age 7+)

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