Scratch Across Every Subject: Visual and Media Arts

In what ways do Scratch and visual & media arts inform one another? How can Scratch be a platform for artistic expression and vice versa? Can visual and media arts help introduce and extend computational creativity? Together, Scratch and art have limitless potential for learning and creating!

We’ve started assembling Resources and Scratch Projects and we’d love your input! Do you have  lesson plans, activities, websites, videos, example projects, or something else to share?

Resources

• Animate Your Name Cards created by Scratch.

• A collected list of design journals to use in your creative computing classroom

• In the Orange Square, Purple Circle Activity in Unit 2 of the Creative Computing guide, students are challenged to create a project that has an orange square and a purple circle. Check out this studio of projects to see what other students have come up with!

• Create a Scratch project with Makey Makey using any of these conductive materials.

• The Scratch Art Guide, a Scratch project about bitmap, vector, blockshading, and polyart.

• A lesson plan for designing repeated patterns for wrapping paper

• A collection of starter projects by the Scratch Team, including animation, games, interactive art, video sensing, and more.

• Check out the Arduino Extension in ScratchX to control lights, measure light, and more.

Sample Projects