"Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates have all said that students should learn how to code.It’s a skill that not only teaches you how to work with computers,but also teaches you how to think about solving problems with systems."
Hour of Code - Be a maker, a creator, an innovator!
Hour of Code Resources and Inspiration from Nadine Gilkison
Star Wars - Building a Galaxy with Code
Minecraft - Explore a Minecraft world through code!
W3Schools - Online web tutorials
BrainPoP - fee videos about coding
10 Middle School Coding Projects for Beginners
Create an App - Outfit of the Day
Hack the News - Remix the news while learning HTML
Design a Digital Poster - Build an online review of your favorite book or movie
Become a Private Eye - See who's tracking you online
Bee A Coder - offers beginner (learn to write code) and advanced (create your own game) opportunities
Khan Academy: Hour of Code - Lots of videos and shared coding projects
Hour of Code 2013: Grok Learning - Get a taste of programming in Python 3.3 a scripting language used by Google, Facebook, and Reddit.
Learn to Code - Learn the basics of Computer Science with drag and drop programming.
Scratch - Create stories, games, and animations and share around the world.
Scratch Card Extensions - Wow!
Scratch Challenges - Wesley Fryer's wiki
Minecraft Challenges - Wesley Fryer wiki
Tynker - Learn computer programming at home! A fun and engaging course for children in grades 4-8
Hopscotch - Coding for kids: an iPad programming language. Similar to Scratch & Tynker
Daisy the Dinosaur - App targets the youngest coders. Simplified version of Hopscotch. Excellent introduction to programming!
LEGO Mindstorms Fix the Factory - gets pre-reading students to engage in meaningful coding challenges that develop computational thinking
Cargo-Bot - a puzzle game where you teach a robot how to move crates.
Cool Coding Apps and Websites for Kids - by Common Sense Media
Sphero - The app-controlled ball that does it all.
littleBits - littleBits blog
Bee-Bot - an exciting new robot designed for use by small children
Ozobot - pocket-sized bots