Tynker

Tynker is a leader in Computer Science education that has been used by over 34 million kids to start learning to code. Tynker is built for educators with no programming experience to make it easy for them to teach programming in a fun, engaging, and creative way. Comprehensive Free Solution: Tynker’s award-winning free solution allows teachers to create unlimited student accounts, assign our free curriculum, and access dozens of free coding activities and games. With Tynker’s fun activities, students learn at their own pace and are challenged to use what they’re learning to build creatively. Tynker is COPPA certified and all user data is safe and private. Teacher Resources: Teachers love Tynker because it’s extremely easy to get started teaching programming. We provide everything they need, from teacher guides and answer keys to automatic assessment and classroom management tools, as well as integrations with Google Apps for Education, Google Classroom, and Clever. Structured Programming Curriculum: For schools that want a structured Computer Science program, we offer a comprehensive K-12 curriculum with over 300 hours of programming lessons. These scaffolded, Common Core- and NGSS-aligned courses take students from no programming experience to confident coders who can problem solve, debug, think like programmers, and express themselves creatively using our block coding language. For middle and high schoolers, we offer a Javascript course to transition students already comfortable with programming logic out of block coding into a text-based coding language. STEM Curriculum: Our school solutions include 12 STEM courses, which support our philosophy that coding is a tool that needs to be integrated throughout the curriculum. The STEM courses have hundreds of projects based on what students are learning in subjects like English, Life Sciences, Social Studies, Math, and more, allowing educators to integrate coding into what they’re already teaching and truly make coding a second language for students. Free Mobile Classroom Solution: Students can download our free app for iPads or Android tablets to play coding games, code over 100 projects using step-by-step instructions, make open-ended projects, and learn from the moderated Tynker community. Makerspaces and Drone Curriculum: Using the Tynker app, students can program drones and other connected toys and robots, transforming play into learning. Our drone coding curriculum teaches kids the basics of coding and computational thinking as they control and program a drone. This is perfect for a technology class or makerspace.