This article suggests answers to two questions that many people face:
1. What is the right age to introduce programming?
2. What is the best first language to learn programming?
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 play music samples? Explore this Scratch concept by creating a project that incorporates the Sound Library.
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.
5 part YouTube video series on how to create a simple animation using Scratch 2.0 See details for an outline of content covered in the series. Complete Scratch file and planning page pdf included too.
Step-by-step guide through building a soccer game in Scratch, designed to point out some potential tricky areas that you and/or your students may run into along the way.
Use Scratch to honor a hero from history. In the first episode of School of the Future, you will learn how to create a digital collage, combining images and objects from the life of Anne Frank.
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.