Scratch Professional Development
Suzanne Collins, STEAM and Coding Teacher
My url: https://birchlandgtstudent.weebly.com/ (Click on Scratch Quick PD)
The ability to code computer programs is an important part of literacy in today’s society. When people learn to code in Scratch, they learn important strategies for solving problems, designing projects, and communicating ideas. - Mitch Resnick, The Creator of Scratch
Objectives
Agenda
A: Two really short videos: Teachers Talking About Scratch and Kids Talking About Scratch
B: Some Scratch Projects
C: How do you envision using Scratch in your classroom?
D: The Scratch Website: https://scratch.mit.edu/
E: Your turn
F: Some Basics:
G: Your turn again
H: Teacher Accounts and Organizing Student Work
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Useful Resources
Scratch Resources for Educators (Scratch 3.0 Tutorials)
Scratch Teacher Accounts (This lets you set up classrooms, organize student work
and reset student passwords)
Pair Programming Video (Rules for kids working with a partner)
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Other Materials available in classroom (I can share google docs upon request)
Ideas for using Scratch at Birchland from students...
Things to know:
Suzanne Collins, STEAM and Coding Teacher
My url: https://birchlandgtstudent.weebly.com/ (Click on Scratch Quick PD)
The ability to code computer programs is an important part of literacy in today’s society. When people learn to code in Scratch, they learn important strategies for solving problems, designing projects, and communicating ideas. - Mitch Resnick, The Creator of Scratch
Objectives
- To see some uses for Scratch in the classroom
- To create a scratch account.
- To learn how to code in Scratch
Agenda
A: Two really short videos: Teachers Talking About Scratch and Kids Talking About Scratch
B: Some Scratch Projects
C: How do you envision using Scratch in your classroom?
D: The Scratch Website: https://scratch.mit.edu/
E: Your turn
- Join Scratch
- Create: Play and Experiment (10 minutes)
- Try a Scratch tutorial!
F: Some Basics:
- Events (Starts program and scripts)
- Sprites (Objects/characters that can move around)
- Costumes (Change a Sprite's appearance)
- Backdrops (Background of stage, always in back)
- Moving around and the coordinate grid
- Control (Repeat, wait, wait until, if...then, etc.)
G: Your turn again
- Create a project of your choice with or without a tutorial.
- Nice starter project: Make two sprites have a conversation or tell jokes.
H: Teacher Accounts and Organizing Student Work
____________________________
Useful Resources
Scratch Resources for Educators (Scratch 3.0 Tutorials)
Scratch Teacher Accounts (This lets you set up classrooms, organize student work
and reset student passwords)
Pair Programming Video (Rules for kids working with a partner)
_______
Other Materials available in classroom (I can share google docs upon request)
- Rubrics
- Planning Documents
Ideas for using Scratch at Birchland from students...
- Percy Jackson Animation
- Build an Ancient City
- Make a Hammurabi Dude
- Show how molecules turn into glucose
- Program a calculator for math
- Build a study guide
- Say words for Spanish or Language Arts
- Make a game
- Make your own virtual science lab
- Option for a project instead of google slides or a poster
- Make a map- click on it for location names
- Clock Buddies - Pick by Scratch project
- Morning announcements Commercials for Events
- To pick/show what we do in tutorial or advisory
- Do math quizzes where you are asked questions and type in answers
- Animate a poem
Things to know:
- Scratch 3.0 was just released in January 2019, so a lot of online materials will be for Scratch 2.0
- Make sure kids "Share" their Scratch projects, otherwise you won't be able to see their projects.
- You can copy and paste the url of any shared Scratch project, so kids could send the link via email, Google Classroom, etc.
- You can remix any Scratch project and edit the code.