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Ages 13+

Apps and websites for teens

Real coding, advanced math, languages and creative tools for teenagers.

Math

  • Numberblocks World: Counting games, number quizzes, songs and episodes featuring the Numberblocks characters.
  • Beast Academy Online: A self-paced elementary math curriculum built around comic-style guides, video lessons and puzzles.
  • Prodigy Math: Prodigy Math is a fantasy game in which answering math questions helps players win battles and finish quests.
  • Kahoot! Geometry by DragonBox: Shape puzzles that introduce angles, geometric properties and the steps behind a proof.
  • MathTango: Math Games for Kids: Arithmetic practice combined with monster collecting and world building.
  • Kahoot! Algebra by DragonBox: Puzzles that introduce equation-solving and algebraic ideas, 200 of them across ten chapters.
  • NRICH: Mathematical investigations from a University of Cambridge project, built around spotting patterns, testing ideas and explaining reasoning.
  • Topmarks Maths Games: Topmarks math games and teaching tools, sorted by age group and then by topic, from counting to fractions.
  • Polypad: A math canvas full of movable objects, from fraction bars and number cubes to 3D solids.
  • Math is Fun: Illustrated math explanations alongside puzzles, games, worksheets and reference pages.
  • MathGames: Math games combined with skill practice, printable worksheets and short explanatory videos.
  • Education.com: A searchable library of games, worksheets, lesson plans and hands-on projects.
  • Sheppard Software: A broad collection of short learning games across early concepts, math, geography, animals, science and language arts.
  • IXL: Practice organized into detailed skill lists for math, language arts, science and more.
  • Teach Your Monster Number Skills: A character-led game in which young children explore early number ideas.
  • Khan Academy Math: Khan Academy’s main math site, with arithmetic laid out as a structured course.
  • Zearn Math: Math lessons that pair short fluency activities with interactive video instruction and quizzes.
  • BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr.: Animated explanations followed by quizzes, drawing and vocabulary activities on the same topic.
  • YouCubed Activities and Tasks: A library of math tasks to explore through discussion, drawing and hands-on work.
  • Sumdog: Adaptive math and spelling practice set inside game-based challenges.
  • DreamBox Math: Interactive math lessons delivered in a personalized sequence, for school or home.
  • Math Antics: Kids watch short animated lessons that walk through one math idea at a time, with printable practice sheets alongside.
  • Times Tables Rock Stars: Kids answer rapid times tables and division questions, earning coins to dress up a rock star avatar.
  • SolveMe Mobiles: Kids balance hanging mobiles of shapes to figure out what each shape is worth.
  • KenKen: Kids fill small number grids using arithmetic clues, a bit like Sudoku with sums and products.
  • Alcumus: Kids tackle adaptive challenge problems from Art of Problem Solving, unlocking achievements as they climb.
  • Monument Valley: Kids rotate and shift impossible buildings so a silent princess can walk paths that only line up from the right angle.
  • Daily SET Puzzle: Kids hunt for sets of three cards that match or differ in color, shape, number and shading, with a new puzzle each day.
  • Euclidea: Kids build geometric figures with a virtual compass and straightedge, hunting for the solution with the fewest moves.
  • Kahoot! Algebra 2 by DragonBox: Kids solve visual equation puzzles that gradually become real algebra, from like terms to factoring.

Coding

  • Code.org / CodeAI: Guided coding activities alongside open tools for making games, animations, apps and web pages.
  • Scratch: Interactive stories, animations and games built by snapping visual coding blocks together.
  • Tynker: Coding for Kids: Guided coding puzzles, game-making and Minecraft-related projects.
  • Hopscotch: Programming for Kids: Tutorials and open creation tools for building games and other interactive projects.
  • Sphero Edu: Program a physical Sphero robot by drawing paths, arranging blocks or writing text code.
  • Coding Games for kids: Dino (Yateland): Dinosaur robots and space missions frame 108 visual block-coding challenges.
  • Swift Playground: Interactive Swift lessons and puzzles that lead toward building apps.
  • Blockly Games: A series of programming puzzles that start with visual blocks and lead toward JavaScript.
  • CodeCombat: Game-based coding challenges in which kids type Python or JavaScript to make things happen on screen.
  • Microsoft MakeCode: Microsoft’s set of block-and-text coding editors for making arcade games and programming small devices.
  • CodeMonkey: Game-like coding courses that run from block puzzles to typed CoffeeScript and Python.
  • VEXcode VR: Code a virtual robot to drive through mazes, draw shapes and take on challenges.
  • Raspberry Pi Foundation Projects: Step-by-step projects for making things in Scratch, Python and web code.
  • Snap!: A visual programming editor for building programs, drawings, animations and games from blocks.
  • MIT App Inventor: Build mobile apps with visual blocks and try them live on a phone or tablet.
  • Code Monster: Short JavaScript examples sit beside a drawing area, so every edit changes the picture right away.
  • CS Unplugged: Computing ideas explored with cards, puzzles and movement, away from the screen.
  • micro:bit Make it: code it: Projects for coding a micro:bit board to use its LEDs, buttons, motion sensor and sound.
  • Kodu Game Lab: A Windows program for building a 3D game world and programming its characters with visual rule tiles.
  • Dash Robot by Wonder Workshop: Kids appear to stack picture and block code that sends Dash, a small rolling robot, driving, flashing and talking around the room.
  • Minecraft Education: Kids appear to roam familiar blocky worlds built around coding, math, science and history lessons.
  • LEGO Education SPIKE App: With the LEGO Education SPIKE App, kids build LEGO models with motors and sensors, then code them with icon blocks, word blocks or Python.
  • Bee-Bot: Young children tap forward, back and turn arrows to steer a cheerful bee across a grid toward a flower.
  • Edison Robot: Kids program a compact LEGO-compatible robot using printed barcodes, picture blocks, Scratch-style blocks or Python.
  • mBlock: Kids appear to code games, animations and robots with Scratch-style blocks, then see the same program as Python.
  • PictoBlox: Kids drag blocks to make games, stories and robot programs, and appear to train simple AI models along the way.
  • Machine Learning for Kids: Kids teach a computer to sort words, pictures, numbers or sounds, then put what it learned to work in Scratch.
  • Pencil Code: Kids steer a drawing turtle with code to make pictures, tunes and games, flipping between blocks and typed text.
  • Human Resource Machine: Kids drag commands to make a little office worker shuffle, sort and add boxes in puzzles that quietly teach programming.
  • Ozobot: Kids draw lines and colored codes with markers for a tiny robot to follow, then try block coding on a screen.
  • Marty the Robot: Kids program a walking, dancing humanoid robot, starting with simple commands and moving on to blocks and Python.
  • GDevelop: Kids build their own 2D and 3D games from events and ready-made behaviors, then export them to share.
  • Teachable Machine: Kids record their own pictures, sounds or poses with a webcam or microphone and watch a model learn to tell them apart.
  • Alice: Kids drag code tiles to make 3D characters act out animated stories and small games.
  • Baba Is You: Kids push word blocks around to rewrite the rules of each level, turning WALL IS STOP into something new.

Live classes

  • Outschool: Teacher-led online classes in subjects such as art, coding, science and schoolwork.
  • Cuemath: One-to-one live lessons for kindergartners on counting, shapes, patterns and small-number arithmetic, using stories and visual activities.
  • CodeWizardsHQ: Children make Scratch animations and games with a live teacher, then move toward text-based coding and websites.
  • Bambinos.Live: In the Unbox Chess program, a coach teaches piece movement, works through tactical puzzles and reviews full games.
  • Preply: Children practice English vocabulary, pronunciation and sentences with an individual tutor through stories, games and conversation.
  • Create2Discover: Live classes in which kids build Roblox games or Minecraft mods alongside an instructor.
  • Codeyoung: One-to-one live coding lessons that begin with Scratch and branch into Python and web development.

Creative play

  • Vooks Creator: Storybook Maker: Children make their own digital book from drawings, text, stickers and a recorded voice on each page.
  • Mekorama: Kids steer a tiny wobbly robot home through mechanical dioramas, then build levels of their own.
  • Fiete World: Kids sail, fly and drive with Fiete the sailor through places drawn from five countries, making up adventures as they go.

Reading

  • Reading Eggs: Pre-reading, first reading, systematic phonics and later comprehension are split into separate programs aimed at different ages.
  • Alphablocks World: Kids watch Alphablocks clips, sing phonics songs and read interactive books that use the sounds they just heard.
  • Circle Round: Kids appear to settle in for folktales from many cultures, performed as radio plays with a cast and music.
  • The Unexplainable Disappearance of Mars Patel: Kids follow 11-year-old Mars Patel and his friends through a three-season audio mystery.
  • Six Minutes: Kids follow Holiday, an 11-year-old with no memory and unusual abilities, through a long-running audio adventure.
  • Libby, the library app: With Libby and a library card, kids borrow ebooks, audiobooks and read-along picture books from their public library.
  • Yoto: Kids slot a card into a screenless speaker to play audiobooks, music, podcasts and stories themselves.
  • Lit2Go: Lit2Go has classic stories and poems as audiobooks, so kids can listen while following the text on the page.
  • Duolingo: Language practice through short exercises with words, sentences, listening and speaking.
  • Digital Dialects: Digital Dialects is a language-learning site with vocabulary games, word lists, flashcards and audio exercises in a long list of languages.

Science

  • Plants by Tinybop: Children move through the seasons in forest, desert and grassland habitats, looking at plant life above and below the soil.
  • The Human Body by Tinybop: A working model of the human body that children can investigate, covering digestion, breathing, circulation and the senses.
  • Simple Machines by Tinybop: Kids tinker with levers, pulleys, ramps, wedges, wheels and screws to launch, lift and topple things.
  • The Kid Should See This: Kids and grown-ups wander through a huge, hand-picked collection of short videos on science, nature, art and how things get made.
  • Google Earth: Kids spin a 3D globe, zoom down to a single street and ride along on guided story tours of reefs, parks and cities.
  • Seterra: Kids click places on blank maps against the clock, learning countries, capitals, states, flags and rivers.
  • Stellarium Web: Kids pull up tonight’s sky for any spot on Earth, switch on constellation art and fast-forward time to watch the stars wheel.
  • Frontiers for Young Minds: Kids read science articles by working researchers, each one reviewed for clarity by kids their own age.
  • Science News Explores: Kids read science news written at their level, from fresh dinosaur finds to robots, space missions and the human body.
  • SciJinks: SciJinks is NOAA’s weather site for kids, with articles, games and videos on how weather works, from hurricanes to rainbows.
  • TÜBİTAK Bilim Genç: TÜBİTAK Bilim Genç is a Turkish-language science site with articles, questions, videos and making activities.
  • PhET Interactive Simulations: PhET is a library of interactive science and math simulations that run in a browser.
  • Exploratorium Science Snacks: Exploratorium Science Snacks are hands-on investigations of real phenomena using physical materials.
  • Generation Genius: Generation Genius teaches science and math through video lessons with related materials.
  • Ask A Biologist: Ask A Biologist, from Arizona State University, mixes biology stories with games, activities, videos and conversations with scientists.
  • NASA StarChild: NASA StarChild is a small astronomy site with two levels of material on the solar system, the universe and space exploration.
  • EIA Energy Kids: Energy Kids, from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, explains energy sources, electricity, energy use and the history of energy.

Music

  • musictheory.net: Short lessons and drills on reading notes, rhythm, scales and chords.
  • Ableton Learning Music: Browser lessons from Ableton on how beats, basslines, chords and melodies fit together.
  • Ableton Learning Synths: Interactive lessons on how synthesizers shape sound, with controls kids drag and then listen to.
  • Incredibox: A music game in which kids drag sounds onto animated performers to build a mix.
  • Blob Opera: In Blob Opera, a Google Arts & Culture experiment, kids drag four opera-singing blobs to change their notes while the others join in.
  • GarageBand: Kids play touch instruments, trigger loops and record songs, beats and their own voices on an iPhone or iPad.
  • Groove Pizza: Kids build drum beats by placing toppings on a spinning pizza and hearing the patterns play.

Making

  • LEGO Education Lesson Plans: Classroom lesson plans built around design challenges with specific LEGO Education sets.
  • Exploratorium Tinkering Projects: Hands-on tinkering projects from the Exploratorium built around motion, balance and chain reactions.
  • LEGO Builder: Kids follow LEGO building steps as 3D models they can spin and zoom, sometimes sharing one set with family.
  • Makey Makey: Kids clip wires to bananas, play-dough or pencil drawings and turn them into keys for computer games and music.
  • KiwiCo DIY Projects: Kids build, tinker and experiment through step-by-step projects that mostly use materials found around the house.
  • BlocksCAD: Kids snap together code blocks that build 3D shapes and objects, ready to send to a 3D printer.
  • Poly Bridge 3: Kids design bridges from wood, steel, rope and hydraulics, then send cars and trucks across to see if they hold.
  • Tinkercad: Kids stack and cut simple shapes into 3D models, wire up virtual circuits and build designs from code blocks.

Art

  • Stop Motion Studio: An app for making stop-motion films by photographing small movements one frame at a time.
  • MoMA At-Home Art Activities: Art-making ideas from MoMA, each starting from a work in the museum’s collection.
  • National Gallery of Art Paint ’n’ Play: A digital painting tool with brushes and palettes based on artists in the National Gallery of Art collection.
  • V&A Make & Do for Kids: Design activities from the V&A, from a fantastic creature to a patterned tile or a story setting.
  • Piskel for Kids: A pixel-art editor for drawing small characters and turning them into animated sprites.
  • Quick, Draw!: Kids sketch a named object in 20 seconds while a computer tries to guess what it is.

Chess

  • ChessKid: Chess lessons, puzzles, computer opponents and games against other children.
  • Lichess: A general chess site with a learning area for the basics, plus puzzles and practice tools.
  • Kahoot! Learn Chess: DragonBox: Kids follow Grandmaster Max through six worlds, meeting each chess piece in puzzles before playing full games.
  • Story Time Chess: Kids learn how each chess piece moves through silly stories about characters like King Chomper, using a special board and pieces.

Typing

  • TypingClub: Short typing lessons with on-screen finger guidance, games and story-based courses.
  • Typing.com: Self-paced keyboard lessons and typing practice with game-like elements.
  • TypeTastic: Kids get to know the keyboard through playful games, from building a keyboard map to typing words on an island adventure.
  • Nessy Fingers Touch Typing: Nessy Fingers teaches kids touch typing with real words, building their spelling along the way.

Languages

  • Dinolingo: Kids watch animated lessons, sing songs and play games in any of 50 languages.

Movement

  • Active Arcade: Kids jump, duck, dodge and dance through camera-powered games where their body acts as the controller.

Nature

  • Seek by iNaturalist: Kids seem to spend their time aiming a camera at leaves, beetles and birds, then filing each find into a growing collection.
  • Merlin Bird ID: Kids hold a phone up to birdsong or snap a photo, and Merlin suggests which birds might be around them.
  • Cornell Lab Bird Cams: Kids watch live cameras trained on real nests and feeders, with hawks, ospreys, albatrosses and toucans going about their day.
  • Ranger Rick: Kids meet wild animals through Ranger Rick’s stories, photos, reading games, videos and a wildlife podcast.
  • Journey North: Kids report the monarchs, hummingbirds and other migrants they spot, then watch sightings sweep across a live map.
  • Monterey Bay Aquarium Online Courses: Monterey Bay Aquarium runs online courses built around marine animals, with observation and making activities.
  • National Park Service Junior Ranger Booklets: The National Park Service’s national-theme Junior Ranger booklets cover subjects that span many parks.

Early learning

  • Pango Kids: Kids tap through soft interactive stories with Pango and friends and play small puzzles, sorting and dot-to-dot games.

History

  • Mission US: Kids play young people living through turning points in U.S. history and make choices that steer each story.
  • iCivics: Kids run a presidential campaign, take on court cases and push bills through government in short civics games.
  • Ducksters: Ducksters offers short reference articles on history, biographies, geography and science, with games alongside.
  • Ben’s Guide to the U.S. Government: Ben’s Guide introduces children to the U.S. government through learning adventures, a glossary and games.