Programs & challenges
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NASA Kids' Club
NASA games, astronaut stories, mission pictures, and STEM activities for younger learners.
ScratchJr
A playful first coding app where young children create interactive stories and games with picture-based programming blocks.
Code for Life
Free coding courses and creative programming activities for children, with guided learning paths for school and home.
Mission US
Research-based history games and classroom materials that place middle-school learners inside complex moments in U.S. history.
RSPB Wild Challenge for Families
Free family nature activities that build observation, wildlife-care, and outdoor science skills through awards and challenges.
Code Club
Free coding clubs, projects, and community support that help young people create with code.
Science Museum Oklahoma
A large hands-on science museum with interactive exhibits, science shows, a planetarium, creative challenges, and family learning experiences.
Code.org Computer Science for Ages 5–11
Code.org’s elementary student hub provides free AI literacy and computer science activities for ages 5–11, including Hour of AI, pre-reader courses, programming challenges, Music Lab, Sprite Lab, and curriculum links.
Kodu Game Lab
A visual game-making environment for children to build 3D worlds, stories, and games with simple programming tiles.
Snap!
A browser-based visual programming language that extends Scratch with custom blocks and deeper computer-science ideas.
Phonics Lessons
A free browser phonics path for ages 3–6 with letter sounds, decodable stories, sound missions, games, and printables.
Code.org Computer Science Fundamentals
A beginner elementary computer-science curriculum with grade-specific courses, unplugged activities, programming, games, animations, and teacher support for kindergarten through fifth grade.
ScratchJr
ScratchJr is a free introductory programming environment for young children. The official MIT project page describes a block-based app for ages 5–7 that lets children create interactive stories and games.
Kids in Parks
Free outdoor adventures, TRACK Trail activities, e-Adventures, brochures, and nature challenges that help families explore parks together.
The Strong National Museum of Play Educators
Play-based museum learning, field trips, school programs, and educator ideas from The Strong National Museum of Play.
New York Aquarium Children and Families
Family programmes, early childhood experiences, camps, children's activities, and wildlife learning at the New York Aquarium.
Boston Children's Museum STEAM Lab
Hands-on science, technology, engineering, art, and math activities that encourage creativity, curiosity, and critical thinking.
NASA Mission: Biomes
An interactive NASA Earth-science mission where children investigate climate, plants, animals, and world biomes, then complete graph-matching and plant-placement challenges.
Microsoft MakeCode for micro:bit
Microsoft MakeCode for micro:bit is a browser coding environment with block-based and text programming, tutorials, games, projects, search, import, and optional account features for young makers.
Alice
A creative programming environment for building 3D stories, animations, and games while learning computational thinking and object-oriented programming.
Brookfield Zoo Chicago for Families
Family learning programs, wildlife discovery, nature play, zoo camps, and educational experiences for all ages.
CodingTeading
CodingTeading is a nonprofit education group that shares free browser-based coding and AI programmes, from early block coding and no-reading puzzles to game making, science, maths, and AI exploration.
StarCode
A free robotics and coding environment that lets children build robot programs with blocks and move toward Python, C++, and Java on web, desktop, Android, and Chromebook.
Block Coding Lab
Free interactive programming games that teach sequences, loops, logic, CSS, JavaScript, and procedural drawing through browser puzzles and learning paths.
NASA Camp Landsat
A NASA collection of videos, interactives, games, and printable activities showing how Landsat satellite data help people understand and protect Earth.
Blockly Games
A sequence of browser games that introduce programming logic through visual blocks.
KidsCanCode
Python, game-development, and creative coding lessons for children and teens, with beginner pathways and classroom programs.
Math Jams
Free, team-based math competitions where grades 3–6 classrooms solve playful problems together during a one-week Math Jam.
Code Club World
The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s free coding game hub helps children make characters, T-shirts, music, games, art, websites, and more while earning project badges.
Tutorfic Code Club
A free browser coding club with guided lessons and projects spanning blocks, HTML, JavaScript, SQL, and Python, with no sign-up or ads.
Stackadoo
A browser-based educational building game where children in grades 2–5 solve maths, reading, spelling, and grammar challenges to earn blocks and build 3D worlds.
Parks Canada Family Activities
Parks Canada’s family activities guide helps families choose hikes, playgrounds, geocaching, family-friendly tours, camping, Xplorers challenges, and Parka activities across Canadian parks and historic sites.
careers.games
careers.games is a free browser simulation where children try technology, medicine, law, finance, food, media, education, and construction careers through playful choices and challenges.
CoKids Screen-Free Coding Kit & App
A bilingual screen-free coding kit using board and card play, with an offline companion app for computational thinking at home or school.
Greenfoot
A beginner-friendly programming environment where learners create games and simulations with visual worlds and real Java code.
Arcademics
Free browser games that help K-8 learners practice math, language arts, spelling, typing, and geography through playful competition.
FreeRice
Educational trivia and vocabulary games that let players learn while supporting the UN World Food Programme.
Loving2Read
A free digital library with more than 1,000 children’s books, reading levels, printables, streaks, achievements, and classroom-friendly browsing.
National Museum of the United States Army Family Activities
Family activities, scavenger hunts, and public programmes that help children explore Army history through museum galleries and play.
London Children's Museum
Hands-on play, art, science, early learning, family programs, and child-led exhibits at a children's museum in London, Ontario.
Genesis Kids
NASA’s Genesis mission learning page introduces children to the Sun and solar system through interactive games and activities, including instrument matching, Mars mazes, and word searches.
Akron Children’s Museum Virtual Field Trip
A virtual museum experience for kindergarten through fifth grade with challenges, games, cooking, movement, art, and financial-literacy activities aligned with Ohio learning standards.
KokeLab
KokeLab offers kids learning games and projects in programming, math, science, and drawing, with a free-to-start browser experience aimed at ages 4–12.
New York Expanded Mathematics Access Program
New York State Education Department’s EMAP provides participating K–8 students with no-cost access to First in Math standards-based games and activities for enrichment, summer learning, and home practice.
Parks Canada Xplorers
A Parks Canada family discovery programme where children complete challenges at participating destinations, learn about each place, and receive a collectible reward and recognition.
CoddyKit Learn JavaScript for Kids
CoddyKit’s beginner coding app starts with tappable JavaScript, then builds through block puzzles, short courses, missions, and a code editor for young learners.
Arludo
A free STEM platform where children ages 8–12 explore science through learning islands, experiments, games, challenges, scientist stories, and career pathways.
MathHappens Open Play Kits
MathHappens open play kits give families, educators, and community programs hands-on materials and prompts for playful mathematical exploration.
VisualModder
A free browser-based coding environment where children program inside Minecraft Java using drag-and-drop blocks and Python.
Matobur
Matobur is a math practice app for ages 5–10 where children solve addition, subtraction, multiplication, comparison, and division challenges while building a virtual town and collecting animal friends.
ScienceKid
ScienceKid is a free supplementary STEM platform with real-world quizzes, adventure tracks, badges, and short interactive challenges across science, math, engineering, and technology.
codeSpark Academy
A game-based coding platform for children with coding challenges, creative projects, and activities designed for early learners.
HanuLab
A bilingual coding and AI playground with unplugged games, block programming, and hundreds of game-like stages for children.
First In Math
First In Math is an online math-practice program that uses game-style activities, immediate feedback, self-paced practice, and personalized goals to support K–8 learners at school or home.
Mia & Codie: Coding for Kids
Mia & Codie combines short story episodes with visible sequencing and coding challenges so young children can explore computational thinking, early logic, patterns, and creative problem-solving without needing to read independently.
ClearWater Kids
ClearWater Kids is an interactive nature-learning website from the Ontario Water Centre with games, videos, trading cards, experiments, challenges, curriculum-linked resources, and prompts to explore the outdoors.
Discover Coding
Discover Coding offers hands-on and online coding programs from block coding through Python, Minecraft, web, app, 3D, and design projects.
Train the Future
Train the Future is a Berlin coding school that guides children through visual programming, Python, robotics, Roblox game design, and AI pathways.
CodeCombat
A game-based coding environment where learners write real code to guide characters through challenges.
Soulxer
A free browser collection of coding games and courses where children solve challenges, repair broken pages, and practise reading code without an account.
My Creature
An interactive browser world where children can move a creature, explore a biome, follow short missions, and use dress-up and game controls for open-ended family play.
Wovi
A pre-launch AI-learning world for ages 9–13 with browser missions that teach agents, classification, data literacy, testing, and reflection.
Kidz Korner
A free child-locked game collection with language adventure, shape and counting games, memory, math sprint, and logic challenges grouped by age.
GetSetKode
GetSetKode is a browser-based first coding adventure where children guide a robot through short puzzles using Python-style logic.
Quick Math
Quick Math is an Android mental-arithmetic game with practice modes and timed challenges designed to make basic calculation practice feel playful.
Code Ninjas Programs
Code Ninjas programs give children structured pathways through game coding, ScratchJr, AI, robotics, digital art, camps, and STEM challenges.
Snapology Alpharetta Programs
Snapology Alpharetta offers playful STEM classes including Junior Builders, coding, robotics, FIRST LEGO League, gamebots, and invention challenges.
Earth Rangers
A conservation-focused app with animal missions, games, facts, and ways for children to take action.