Links to Maker Projects & Tools for Kids
Parent’s looking for links to maker projects (software projects, hardware or electronics projects, etc.) aimed at kids including tools that they could use can consider the links below -
- ScratchJr
- Scratch
- BBC Microbit
- BBC Microbit - Block Editor Tutorials
- BBC Microbit - Touch Develop Tutorials
- BBC Microbit - Code Kingdom Tutorials
- Introduction to Computer Science using BBC Mirobit
- BB Microbit - CodeClub Tutorials
- Projects @ Microbit.org
- Kitronik University
- Kitronik Inventors Kit
- Scratch & micro:bit - S2M
- Scratch & micro:bit - S2Bot
- Microbit Of Things - Projects
- Curated list of mirco:bit website links
- RaspberryPi Digital Maker Curriculum for kids
- Raspberry Pi Learning Resources for kids
- Raspberry Pi Projects
- Hello World Magazine
- CoderDojo
- CoderDojo Resources for volunteers
- Code.org
- Computing At School - UK
- CamJam Edu Kit
- Raspberry Pi Education Manual
- Making Science With Google
- FreeCodeCamp
- Learn Python
- Learn HTML
- Learn PHP
- Google CS First
Here’s a list of block based programming languages other than Scratch -
- Scratch for Arduino
- Experimental Extensions for Scratch - Arduino, BBC Microbit, etc.
- Snap4Arduino
- Edublocks
- GPBlocks
Here’s a list of websites/activities you could use to conduct coding sessions for kids -
- Code.org - Hour of Code
- Code.org - Hour of Code / MineCraft
- Code.org - Hour of Code / StarWare
- Code.org - Hour of Code / Frozen
- Code.org - Hour of Code / Athletes
- Code.org - Hour of Code / Flappy Code
- Code.org - Hour of Code / Infinity Play Lab
- Code.org - Hour of Code / Play Lab
- Code.org - Hour of Code / Artist
- Code.org - Hour of Code / Text Compression
- Code.org - Hour of Code / Conditionals
- Code.org - Hour of Code / Frozen
- Code Club Projects @ CodeClubProjects.org or
- Code Club Projects @ Projects.RaspberryPi.org
- Robo Mind Academy - Hour Of Code
- Monster Coding - Hour Of Code
- Tynker - Hour Of Code
- Code Monkey - Hour Of Code
- Code Combat
- Code Avengers
- SonicPi