ScratchEd

Welcome to the ScratchEd Online Community Archive!

From May 2009 until May 2019, more than 27,000 educators who support learning with the Scratch programming language shared 4,749 discussion posts, 1,027 resources, and 354 stories here in the ScratchEd Online Community. We've created this archive so you can peruse these 10 years of discussions, resources, and stories.

ScratchEd is now closed to new members and contributions, but the ScratchEd spirit continues in two other key initiatives: the Scratch Educator Meetups Network and the Teaching with Scratch Discussion Group. To learn more about the history of the ScratchEd Online Community, please visit the About page.

From pedagogical puzzles to technical troubleshooting, explore thousands of conversations in the discussion forums.

If you're looking for current conversations, join or start a Scratch Educator Meetup in your area or participate in the Teaching with Scratch discussion group on Facebook.

From Music to Math: Scratch Across Every Subject

Scratch isn't just for computer science classes. Scratch can be incorporated into any content area in any classroom!

How to Host a Scratch Educator Meetup

The Scratch Educator Meetup Guide offers a detailed description of how to host playful professional learning.

Creative Computing Curriculum Guide

154 pages of plans, activities, and strategies for introducing Creative Computing with Scratch 3.0.

Examples of Creative Computing Design Journals

Design journals help learners brainstorm, plan, create, reflect, and iterate. Explore these examples of student journals.

Approaches to Assessing Computational Thinking

Using artifact-based interviews, design scenarios, and learner documentation for assessing computational thinking.

Getting Unstuck: 21 Creative Scratch Challenges

A collection of 21 short programming prompts to help build fluency with Scratch through regular practice.

Designing an Introductory Scratch Workshop

A guide to designing introductory Scratch learning experiences, emphasizing personalizing, sharing, and reflecting.

Five Resources for Five Common Questions

Assessment, tutorials, remixing, and more! A list of ScratchEd resources to add to your educator toolkit.

Celebrating Mistakes and Embracing Process

Emily Roach, a Middle School Computer Science and Digital Communications teacher, celebrates bugs and debugging.

Scratch at the Horace Mann School for the Deaf

In Charlotte Corbett's tech classes, language skills and programming skills are developed together.

Cultivating ELL Students' Comfort with Language

5th grade teacher Alfonso Mendoza shares how Scratch helps students make personal connections with curriculum.

Constructing a Collaborative Classroom Culture

Kimberly Boyce, a STEM Lab teacher at a school in Houston, designs for student success and collaborative culture.

Think of Technology Like You Think of Art

Dylan Ryder, a teacher in New York City, helps students see programming as an everyday tool for creative expression.

Dedicating Time for Reflection

Nick Giacobbe, a Special Education teacher in Chicago, shares his students' process of building a Scratch orchestra.

Building Student Confidence to Think Like Designers

Join Bradley Quentin and his students at the Center for Advanced Awesomeness in the Sinclair Elementary STEM Lab.

Supporting a Creative Classroom Community

Alexis Cobo, an elementary Computer Science teacher in Florida, helps her students discover their creativity.