Learn, Code, Create, and Play
Scratch is a tile-based visual programming environment and toolkit, which lets kids make games, animated stories, interactive art, and share with others on the MIT Scratch site.
Target Audience: Educator
Level: Beginner
Welcome to the first lesson of Basic Scratch for Educators. In this series, I will walk over the very basics of Scratch and how you can introduce it to your children or students.
To “set up” for Scratch, these are the three simple steps
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Have you heard of Scratch? No, not what you do to your itch, but Scratch from MIT the famous school for the curiously brainy people? If you have not heard, seen, or played with Scratch, then you’ve been missing out. Because it is a lot of FUN!!!
In Lesson 1, we created a sprite and also create four costumes: “frontâ€, “backâ€, “facing leftâ€, and “facing rightâ€.
In this lesson, we will make our sprite dance, and dance to the beat.
In this lesson 2, we make our sprite dance. In lesson 3, I will show you how to make him dance to the beat. And not just to the beat but to the Hip-Pop beat!
In this lesson 3, we make our sprite dance. In lesson 4, I will show you how to make him dance to the beat. And not just to the beat but to the Hip-Pop beat! (Note: the video below used Scratch 1.4. For instruction with Scratch 2.0, please read the article)
In this lesson, I will show you how to make sprites move to certain locations on the Stage. The Scratch Stage uses X-Y Coordinate System that looks as follow:
In this lesson, I will show you how to create a tune using Scratch™s Sound Tool Kit. Then I will also show you how to use Audacity to create a Scratch sound clip from a MP3 or WAV file.
In this lesson, we will modify a sample game named “Pongâ€. We will add score, levels, and more balls to the game.
In this lesson, we will create a Cartoon Animation. We will first create a story line. Based on the story line, we will create sprites and scenes, and finally add scripts to put together the story.
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