Coding and STEAM Curriculum

Designed for all experience levels, Tynker's self-paced coding curriculum lets students learn by applying coding to core subjects.

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  • 24 coding courses
  • Grades 3-8
  • Pay-as-you-go pricing
  • Marketing materials
  • Multiple location support
  • Automatic assessment
  • Teacher guides
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Starter Course

Grades 3-8 • Beginner • 1 Lesson • 11 Activities
Introductory Lesson: Puzzles, coding projects and more
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Game Design 101

Grades 3-5 • Beginner • 18 Lessons • 125 Activities
Build a basic side-scroller, program a robot to dance, and create many more mini-games.
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Game Design 102

Grades 3-5 • Intermediate • 24 Lessons • 143 Activities
Build a drawing-based car racing game, complete BeatBot Challenge, and create several other mini-games.
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Game Design 201

Grades 6-8 • Beginner • 25 Lessons • 157 Activities
Build a projectile-physics based game with explosions, an adventure game, and several mini-games.
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Game Design 202

Grades 6-8 • Intermediate • 20 Lessons • 126 Activities
Build a top-down shooting game, a projectile physics game, and a 2-player aerial battle.
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Creative Coding

Grades 3-8 • Beginner • 31 Lessons • 139 Activities
Discover programming through art, music, and animation.
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Game Design

Grades 3-8 • Beginner • 22 Lessons • 95 Activities
Build arcade games, animations, RPGs, platformers, and more
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Minecraft Modding

Grades 6-8 • Intermediate • 27 Lessons • 113 Activities
Program Minecraft Mods and Games
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Creative Coding Studio

Grades 3-8 • Beginner • 16 Lessons • 63 Activities
Discover programming through art, music, and math.
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Animation Studio

Grades 3-8 • Beginner • 15 Lessons • 76 Activities
Create animated cartoons just like the pros. Learn the basics of animation as you draw your own characters and bring them to life with code.
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Game Design Studio 1

Grades 3-5 • Beginner • 14 Lessons • 63 Activities
Learn coding basics, build arcade mini-games, animations, and platformers.
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Game Design Studio 2

Grades 6-8 • Beginner • 17 Lessons • 59 Activities
Build platformers, multiple levels, top-down RPGs, and physics games.
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AR Studio

Grades 5-7 • Intermediate • 10 Lessons • 62 Activities
Create a world where real and virtual elements blend together.
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Mythicraft

Grades 3-5 • Beginner • 6 Lessons • 34 Activities
Unleash mythical creatures in the Minecraft world with behavior modifications.
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Mod Design Studio

Grades 6-8 • Intermediate • 15 Lessons • 61 Activities
Discover fundamental programming concepts while making cool mods and building games in your private Minecraft server, hosted by Tynker.
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3D Game Design Studio

Grades 6-8 • Intermediate • 12 Lessons • 52 Activities
Learn to build Minecraft mini-games.
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Drone Coding Studio

Grades 5-7 • Intermediate • 11 Lessons • 58 Activities
Introductory 9-Lesson Drone Programming Course
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WeDo Coding Studio

Grades 3-5 • Intermediate • 11 Lessons • 65 Activities
Program the Lego WeDo 2.0 Smart Hub & sensors using Tynker code blocks.
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micro:bit Studio

Grades 3-5 • Intermediate • 16 Lessons • 54 Activities
Block coding for a micro:bit and several fun hardware projects
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Icon Coding
Block Coding
Robotics
Text Coding
STEM Projects
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$20 per student
(50 student min)

$3,600 per school
(up to 400 students)

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$20 per student
(50 student min)

$3,600 per school
(up to 400 students)

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$50 per student
(20 student min)

$3,600 per school
(up to 150 students)

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List of Programming Courses

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Course Name Grade Access Difficulty K-2 Elementary Middle School High School
10 Icon Coding Courses K-2 Tynker Junior Beginner Yes Yes
All About Computers I K-2 Tynker Web Beginner Yes Yes
Space Cadet 1-2 Tynker App   Tynker Web Beginner Yes Yes
Dragon Spells 1-3 Tynker App   Tynker Web Intermediate Yes Yes
Programming 1A, 1B 1-2 Tynker Web Beginner Yes Yes
All About Computers II 3-5 Tynker Web Beginner Yes
Programming 101, 102 3-4 Tynker App   Tynker Web Beginner Yes
Lego WeDo Coding 3-5 Tynker App   Tynker Web Beginner Yes
6 STEM Level 1 Courses 1-5 Tynker App   Tynker Web Beginner Yes
Augmented Reality 5-7 Tynker App   Tynker Web Intermediate Yes Yes
Artificial Intelligence 101 3-8 Tynker App   Tynker Web Intermediate Yes Yes
Microbit 101 3-5 Tynker App   Tynker Web Intermediate Yes Yes
Programming 201, 202 5-6 Tynker App   Tynker Web Intermediate Yes Yes
6 STEM Level 2 Courses 6-8 Tynker App   Tynker Web Intermediate Yes
Programming 301, 302 7-8 Tynker Web Advanced Yes Yes
JavaScript 101 7+ Tynker Web Advanced Yes Yes
Python 101 7+ Tynker Web Advanced Yes Yes
Web Development 7+ Tynker Web Advanced Yes Yes
Artificial Intelligence 401 7+ Tynker Web Advanced Yes Yes
MicroPython 101 7+ Tynker Web Advanced Yes Yes
Python 201 8+ Tynker Web Advanced Yes Yes
Java 101 9+ Tynker Web Advanced Yes
Intro to Programming and Art 9+ Tynker Web Advanced Yes
Data Science 1 9+ Tynker Web Advanced Yes
AP Computer Science Principles 9+ Tynker Web Advanced Yes
AP Computer Science A 9+ Tynker Web Advanced Yes
Course Totals 15 32 19 13

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