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.
Stuck for ideas.. a way to get into coding, want flipped learning, need to start somewhere with some help... here we are. A Google slide presentation ready to share with teachers and pupils.
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.
Students create function machine programs and challenge each other to figure out the function from the inputs and outputs. Basics of Scratch, includes simple lists.
This activity connects number theory and geometry. Your challenge: predict the shape that will result from any combination of angle and distance variables.
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.
As part of my involvement in an evaluation of Scratch by the EDC, I was provided with a series of questions to use in the daily reflections my students wrote in our class blog.