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.
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.
Students learn basic Scratch programming by designing an avatar that represents them in 3 positive ways & completes a simple action. Taps into students' creativity while introducing programming!
A simple guide to making a maze game which relies upon several key scratch ideas such as broadcast and sensing of color intercations. The game is incomplete and is ripe for extending.
I've created a manual for teachers and students, which goal is to help them to take their first steps with Scratch. The book is under CC 3.0 license and it's in Polish language.
After teaching students some basics (stage, sprites, costumes, loops, movement, ask/answer, broadcast/receive, variables), I challenged them to create their own projects.