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Developing a culture of problem-solving and autonomy in the classroom means that you'll be freed to focus on helping students that are struggling and challenging students who pick up the material quickly. There will be more time to build lasting relationships with your students, develop strong classroom culture, and ensure that your students are

RayRay is a fantastic little problem solving games that gets students communicating and collaboration to develop strategies to solve problems. Belly buttons! (To see what I mean give the game a go!)

Learning to code means stepping out of your comfort zone, dealing with frustration, and leaning into discomfort.

https://scratch.mit.edu/ I saw this website where children can animate few cartoons. It can work as a prelude to learn coding. Here coding is very simple like jump 4 times or move three steps.

It could be useful even in schools that teaches thinking skills classes.

Level Up Village curriculum teaches STEAM and design thinking through collaborative, real-life problem solving on an international scale.

Kodu lets kids create games on the PC and XBox via a simple visual programming language. Kodu can be used to teach creativity, problem solving, storytelling, as well as programming. Anyone can use Kodu to make a game, young children as well as adults with no design or programming skills.

Report by Erin Relly, Vanessa Vartabedian, Laurel J. Fert and Henry Jenkins which elaborates on the five principles of participatory learning (exercise creativity, co-learning, motivation and engagement, relevance and learning ecosystem) and shares insights from 11 teachers who oriented their classrooms according to these principles including triumphs and discoveries, challenges identified, and suggestions for fostering participatory learning environments.

Love using this tool in the classroom to explore a range of topics from science to literacy. The coding games and tutorials teach a lot of problem solving, language development and collaboration skills.