Teaching coding to school students (upper primary to high school) is very important in 21st Century and it is a part of 21st century learning skill. But it is very challenging to choose a tools or programming language for a 5th or 6th standard students. The primary challenge is most of the students are getting bored or impatient by writing code. To make it easy, fun and enjoyable, we have some great tools which can be used for free.
These are some best fun coding tools for school students to learn Coding.
Scratch
Scratch is a free programming tools with a visual interface where students can create games, animation and stories using drag and drop blocks.
Website: https://scratch.mit.edu/
Turtle Block
Turtle block is visual programming tools where a turtle draw picture using coding. It will help student to understand logic, condition and loop very easily. It is free to use.
mBlock for robotics.
MakeBlock or mBLock is a graphical block based coding platform to programme a bot or robot.
Website: https://www.mblock.cc/en/
Code.org
Code.org is a very helpful website to learn coding and computer science. It plays an important role in K-12 education.
Website: https://code.org/
Kodable
It is subscription based online tools to learn coding for K-5 Child play a important role in integrated learning.
Website: https://www.kodable.com/