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.
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.
You don't need computers to teach kids computational thinking, just imagination. Even if you have your Hour of Code project ready to go, you may want to keep this handy.
A lesson format that can be adapted to any grade level in middle school (and perhaps beyond). Students create an interactive animation to review the roots of words.