ScratchKeith Patton

Computer Literacy TeacherWest Chester Area School District

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•There are only 10 kinds of people in this world: those who know binary and those who don’t.

Raise Your Hand If You:

• Have heard of Scratch other than at this conference.

• Have downloaded Scratch but not gotten around to playing with it yet.

• Have played around with it.• Use it in your teaching.

Agenda

• What is Scratch?• Scratch and 21 Century Learning Skills• Scratch and the classroom• Scratch and programming• Create a scratch game• Scratch website and other resources

What is Scratch?

• A new graphical media rich programming language that allows users to

–make games–Animations–Interactive stories–Music–Art

Scratch

• It is intended especially for 8- to 16-year-olds,

• Engaging and intuitive• Collaborative• Scratch offers:– low floor (easy to get started)– high ceiling (ability to create complex projects)– wide walls (support for a wide diversity of

projects)

Scratch

Scratch and

21st Century Skills

Information and Communication Skills

• Students learn to select, create and manage multiple forms of media.

• Students create media• Students learn to analyze media• Students create media to express themselves

creatively and persuasively.

Thinking and Problem Solving Skills

• Students learn critical reasoning and systems thinking.

• Students coordinate timings and interactions between multiple sprites.

• Students will identify new problems and creative solutions

• Students will break problems up into steps• Throughout students engage in experimenting

and problem solving with immediate feedback

Interpersonal and Self-Directional Skills

• The visual nature of the programming affords more sharablility

• Students tap into their inborn persistence and practice as they are challenged with problems.

• They create with an audience in mind and are able to make easy changes based on feedback of others.

• They learn to be socially responsible as they interact with others through the scratch website

Scratch and the

Classroom

Middle School

• 7th Grade Computer Literacy Curriculum which is transforming into a Computer Science Curriculum.• Week Long IU Summer Career

Academy

Day 1

• Day One – Discuss types of games (ex. RPG, shooters, mazes, skill, sports …)

• Explore Environment and Use Scratch Cards (12)

• With partners start planning game using worksheet

Move, Clone, Cut, Change Shape

Sprite List

StageSprite PositionFull Screen

Stage

Create, Find or Surprise Sprite

Start and Stop Game

Scripts Area

Blocks

Day 1• Programming concepts that students will be

introduced to:• Loops • If/Then conditions• Sequences• Variables• Threads• coordination and synchronization• Boolean logic• random numbers• Trial and Error

Day 2

• Students begin and make one level

Day 3

• Explore http://scratch.mit.edu• Set up an account.• Download three games that are similar to the

ones that you want to create.• See how these games are coded.• Save a game to your web account.

Day 4

• Discuss the use of broadcasting to go to another level.

• Constant Student Interaction – Ask 3 before me.

Day 5

• Troubleshoot and peer review

Scratch Web Resources

•The Scratch Website•Learning Scratch•Scratch Wiki•Pete and C Ning

Questions???

• Clean out Sun temp folder

• kpatton@wcasd.net

ACT 48 #

DL031866

21st Century Learning Skills

21st Century Learning Skills

21st Century Learning Skills