National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: The Art Zone
Ten interactive activities that allow you to use the computer to create and manipulate works of art.
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Carnegie Mellon University: Alice
An innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy for students to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. This is a free teaching tool designed to be a student's...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Scratch: Imagine, Program, Share
Scratch is a programming language developed for students ages 8 and up. Students can use this free download to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. This...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Make a Pumpkin
Click and drag the different shapes to make a pumpkin. Students learn and practice valuable mouse manipulation techniques while clicking and dragging. Students may also create faces depicting different emotions. Have fun with this...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Intro to 'Memory'
An introduction to creating a single player version of the memory game using drawing commands and implementing the rules of the game using variables and logic.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: A Button Object Type
This Khan Academy resource is an article about using a button object type to create code and make it reusable.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Learning Sustainability With Sim City
Helps educators develop SimCity-based lesson plans that will encourage students to think critically about the challenges facing modern cities. SimCity is a city-building simulation computer game where players become the mayor and design...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Meet a 12 Year Old App Developer
Most 12-year-olds love playing video games- but Thomas Suarez taught himself how to create them. After developing iPhone apps like "Bustin Jeiber," a whack-a-mole game, he is now using his skills to help other kids become developers. [4:33]
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: Manejo Del Raton
These are simple games to introduce preschool children to use the mouse. There are many activities that match each of the mouse functions such as paths and trails, coloring, puzzles or creating faces.
Code.org
Code.org: Cs Fundamentals: Course A
Learn the basics of computer science and internet safety. At the end of the course, create your very own game or story you can share.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Click and Drag Make a Snowman
Practice basic mouse manipulation techniques using this interactive lesson. Using the mouse, learners move the shapes to create a colorful snowman. Immediate feedback given.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Click and Drag to Make a Face
Practice basic mouse manipulation skills using this interactive lesson. Using the mouse, learners move the shapes to create a colorful and funny face. Immediate feedback given.
Other
Timelines of History
Here, you can see timelines of various eras and events in history. View a chronology of World War II as well as chronologies of video game systems and personal computers. This website provides good examples of simple, yet informative,...
Other
Calimero
A great site that allows young students to play with the computer and create postcards, read jokes and other stories and print out the alphabet or table decorations to color manually or import into a paint program to color with the...
Smithsonian Institution
National Postal Museum: Color Away
Put your crayons away and create postal themed works of art with this online coloring book from the National Postal Service.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Acti Vstudio 2.5 Jeopardy
[Free Registration/Login Required] Created from Bill Lohman's Jeopardy template, this game will reinforce ACTIVstudio training for educators or become a source of training in itself.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Fuzz Bugs Farm Consonant Blends
Fuzz Bugs Farm Consonant Blends is a great activity for young children to work with consonant digraphs and the different words they create. Help your Fuzz Bugs Farm Animal make its way across the game board by answering different...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Forest Environment
Creating a classic 2D "side-scroller" game in which the view is side-on and the character is moving forwards and backwards.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Stick Collisions
Creating a basic collision check for two objects in a side-scroller game.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Secret Message Maker
The ABCya Secret Message Maker is a fun way to create, share and solve secret messages! Simply type your message into the maker and press the button to encrypt it! Next you can choose to solve it on the computer, save it or print it out.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Crossword Puzzle Maker
ABCya! Crossword Puzzle Maker is a fun and easy way for children to create interactive crossword puzzles. Kids can input answers and clues using a simple form or by copying and pasting from a text document. Crossword Puzzles can be...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Generating 3 D Shapes
Creating a cuboid with specific position and dimensions entails a function that maps a position and dimensions into an array of nodes and an array of edges.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Interactive Scenes
Creating scenes that respond to user interaction by a trial and error approach to the best function solution.