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Digital Schoolhouse Video: Understanding Scratch

Contributed by ScratchEd Team, September 25, 2012
This intro to Scratch video produced by the UK's Digital Schoolhouse is geared towards students ages 8-14.
  • Original Author: Mark Dorling
  • Education Level: Elementary School, Middle School
  • Content Types: Audio and Video, Website, Advocacy Material
  • Curricular Areas: Computer Science, Technology
  • Keywords: introduction, video

The Digital Schoolhouse is a primary to secondary school transition project established at Langley Grammar School in Slough, Berkshire. The project provides a colleciton of online resources and lesson plans for ICT and Computing educators working with primary and secondary school pupils (ages 8-14) in the UK. Now anyone can access the Scratch tutorial videos and worksheets for free.

Understanding Scratch Video
This introduction to Scratch video focuses on teaching the children how to use the application as quickly as possible using their real world understanding. The aim of this introduction is to allow the class teacher to focus on encouraging creativity and begin teaching the concepts and principles of computer science!

Special thanks to Mark Dorling for sharing these free resources.

Resource Files
Links: 
Digital Schoolhouse: Understanding Scratch video
Digital Schoolhouse website