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.
The ScratchEd Team hosted a #ScratchEd Chat on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 on Math and Scratch. Check out the complete archived chat on Storify, as well as the list of resources that participants shared.
This activity connects number theory and geometry. Your challenge: predict the shape that will result from any combination of angle and distance variables.
"There is nothing like making music and messing with sound to inspire people to learn how to program." -- Professor Dan Trueman, cofounder of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra
UPDATED: These challenges are now on a website. This is a set of Scratch challenges that scaffold students learning of the basic concepts of Scratch and programming in a fun way.
Students are responding that they like spending class time creating games with Scratch. This post includes slides for 2 games we're making in class using Scratch.
From the Creative Computing educator workshop, a compilation of presentations, activities, and handouts for cultivating computational thinking and computational creativity in your classroom.
In this lesson you will build a gravity system that can be used in video games. When a character jumps, they will move in the air 10 spaces then gravity will pull them back to the ground