Download free projects to get your kids coding
The Week Junior Science+Nature magazine has joined forces with the UK educational charity, Raspberry Pi Foundation. Using Scratch and other programming languages, our Coding Club is a space for young people to learn and develop their skills, from building games to designing animations. Help your children discover the power of computing and digital technologies, and realise their full potential with our free projects below. Plus you can discover more step by step coding projects from the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
Build a shark game
Wow your friends with this game about plastic pollution
Create a game and save the shark! Explore their favourite food source and the impact of plastic in the water harming sharks in their natural ocean habitat.
Code a wild place
Build a calming scene to test your coding skills
This project teaches you how to set up your own variables to develop a peaceful scene of a wood, which you can look at, listen to, and relax with.
Create an archery game
Hit the target with this shooting challenge
Learn about animation and colours by creating this archery game, in which you have to shoot arrows as close to the bullseye as you can.
Help nature regrow
Model forest regeneration after a bushfire
Help regrow the forest with this project that shows how bushfires break out and how nature bounces back afterwards.
Beat the goalie
Code a football game to play with your friends
This activity teaches you how to build a two-player game and move your sprite from left to right.
Code a boat race
Build a speedboat game and challenge your friends
This activity teaches you how to create different costumes and change the colours. Take it further by adding sound effects to your game.
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