Coding Programs

• Tynker Computer Coding Courses-Free, 6 lesson course for students in grades 3-8.  Additional courses can be purchased by a campus that focus on math, English, social studies, or life science for grades 3-5.
  
  Scratch-Free computer coding activities for students aged 8-16.  Students can program interactive games, stories, and animations.
  
  Code Studio- Free, 20 hour courses in Computer Science for students aged 4-18.
  
  Lightbot- junior coding puzzles for ages 4-8 available on ipads, programming puzzles for ages 9+ available on ipads and Windows.

Math Enrichment Resources:

• Prodigy Game-free online math game targeted for students in grades 1-8, game differentiates to the learning needs of players
  
  Ken-Ken Puzzles -free math puzzles (online or printable) that reinforce computation skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication, & division (difficulty level and math operations are customizable) while focusing on logical thinking
  
  Greg Tang Math Games -free online math games for kids.  There are also downloadable puzzles, etc...that can be printed and used in the classroom.

Reading Enrichment Resources

• Wonderopolis-website where a "wonder of the day" submitted by students is explored.  Students can read for themselves (or there is audio available for students who need help with reading).  Each "wonder of the day" is accompanied with "wonder words" for vocabulary development and a short comprehension quiz.
  
  Smart Mouth Game Directions
  
  Poetry 4 Kids -website with tons of poems, poetry games, poetry activities, and other resources
  
  Daily Quiddler Puzzle-from the creators of SET, a critical thinking, word-building puzzle

Games to Make Kids Think

• Daily SET Game- SET builds cognitive, logical and spatial reasoning skills as well as visual perception skills while playing a game! Because it has a rule of logic (three cards that are all the same or all different in each individual feature), and because players must apply this rule to the spatial array of patterns all at once, they must use both left brain and right brain thought processes.
  Chess Kid-site to help kids learn and play chess with either the computer or other kids from around the world
  Rules for Chess in Kid-Friendly Language
  Mensa for Kids Games-online games that focus on different math and language skills, best for 3rd grade and up

Cool Websites

• DIY-  (Do It Yourself) is an online platform to encourage students to try a variety of skills and accept a variety of challenges.  Students can create individual accounts and choose their own skills and challenge, or as the classroom teacher you can view the skills and challenges for ideas for enrichment projects for your students.
  
  Mensa for Kids Lesson Plans -online collection of inter-disciplinary lesson plans for students at a variety of grade levels