Civic Engagement and Scratch

Civic Engagement and Scratch

The ScratchEd Team is crowdsourcing example lessons, projects, and curriculum around Scratch and civic engagement. We'd love your contributions! Please share a brief description of the project, relevant links, and any attribution. Thanks!

• Children’s Civic Engagement in the Scratch Online Community - an analysis by Ricarose Roque, Sayamindu Dasgupta, and Sasha Costanza-Chock, of civic engagement in the Scratch online community, exploring the many ways that Scratchers connect with current issues, locally and globally.

• In this Inventors4Change project, students in Spain and India learned about the Refugee crisis and created Scratch sprites and backdrops for others to remix as they, too, learn about the crisis.

• A Scratch studio of projects about climate change and global warming.

• A Scratch studio about sharing the planet.

• A Scratch studio celebrating diversity and inclusion around the world.

• A Scratch studio about animal testing.

• A Scratch studio exploring the lives and legacies of Civil Rights leaders.

• A Scratch project about gender: Spectrum: A Platform Game About Gender

• A multi-animator Scratch project made in response to the Orlando Nightclub shooting: Hands Completed MAP - For Orlando <3

• A Scratch project and remix chain about representation in emojis: The Injustice of Emojis, remixes of The Injustice of Emojis

• A Scratch project about historical figures in Civil War-era America: Voices of the Civil War

• A Scratch project about the Scratcher’s gender identity: What Being Transgender Means to Me
   

• A Scratch project about cultural appropriation: ★Halloween PSA: Culture ≠ Costume★
   

• A Scratch project about gun control: Gun Control
   

• A Scratch project about world hunger and how to help: How YOU Can Help
   

• A Scratch project about clean water: Clean Water - PSA
   

• A studio made to Celebrate Diversity
   

• A studio for “raising awareness about inequalities or other social injustices (people to people)”: ❤︎☪☮e✡☥☯†❤︎
   

• A studio to “show the diversity of human beings”: A Diverse World - A Diverse Scratch
   

• A project to call for justice for Trayvon Martin: Justice for Trayvon Martin
   

• A project about lgbt+ awareness
   

• An lgbt support group studio
   

• A studio made for Body Positivity Week
   

• A project in response to the Paris attacks: #PrayForParis
   

• A studio of projects made in response to the Paris attacks: Pray For Paris
   

• A studio promoting peace between humans: Humans Are Humans
   

• A studio about Feminism