In our first #CreativeComputingChat of the year, educators from around the world shared resources and reflected on their goals for teaching with Scratch!
This free, interest-driven curriculum includes projects and resources designed specifically for elementary coders and coding educators with little or no coding experience.
Can visual and media arts help introduce and extend computational creativity? Together, Scratch and art have limitless potential for learning and creating!
Contributed by Margarida Romero, September 21, 2016
This guide aims to promote co-creative uses of technologies and contribute to #5c21 development: critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, problem solving and computational thinking.
Did you know that you can make your Scratch projects interactive through a microphone? Explore this advanced Scratch concept by creating a project that incorporates the loudness sensing feature.
In this activity, students will create a virtual spray paint can & graffiti canvas for others to make art taking advantage of conditional statements and the 'mouse down?' property.
In these videos, twelve Scratch educators share examples of student work, lesson plan ideas, assessment rubrics or other experiences from using Scratch in their classrooms.