The major principle of teaching a child how to program is the creation of a complex game by the child that will consist of many minor structures called scripts.
Students will enjoy outracing the bad guy in this game. 4th and 5th graders can program their own multiplication game in Scratch. Concepts covered include; variables, loops, random numbers, etc.
Haunted House Adventure Game in Scratch Workbook walks you through creating an adventure game in Scratch. Perfect for educators to use in schools, libraries, and community events.
"Controlling Our World" poster presentation and resources given at the Scratch@MIT 2014 conference. Use them to easily learn how to use an Arduino with Scratch.
What about making our own interactive (Arduino/Scratch) Talking Tom toy? In this guide we will show you how to build this toy using sensors and bi-directional Scratch<->Arduino communication.
We wanted to create a simple strategy of integrating Scratch and Arduino to teach programming mobile robots. We came up with 4 tutorials that attack the major problems we encountered. Here they are.
Another addition to the custom string blocks I have written. I had a request to add a block to allow searching a string for another string, so I have added this new block.
The goal of the book is introduction into programming, mathematics, sciences for elementary school students.
for student self-study for Grade 3-5
very step-by-step explanation
With the ability in Scratch 2 to create your own custom blocks, I have put together a tutorial on how to implement recursion in Scratch 2. The tutorial comes in the form of a post on my blog.