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Content Teaser Scratch Day East gathered students from the East of England to celebrate Scratch's birthday.

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Content Teaser The Start Scratch iPhone app has been designed to make learning Scratch even easier. Resource Files Links:  Start Scratch App Website Start Scratch App Download Link Featured:  Not-Featured

Original Author:  Jim Tiffin Jr Content Teaser Incorporating these four concrete elements of game design in the planning phases can make the creation process much easier for students.

Our school has just introduced Scratch to our 4th graders.  This particular set of students has not done any sort of programming before, so the block-based nature of Scratch was completely new to them - in addition to the concepts related to programming.

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Original Author:  Kelley Meister Content Teaser New Scratch Game Booklet for use with planning and designing your Scratcher's games!

From Keith Braafaldt @ Media Mashup:

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Original Author:  Roshanak Razavi Content Teaser ChemiConstruct is a project that helps high school students to become engaged in building chemistry models and simulations using Scratch programming language. ChemiConstruct is a project that helps high school students to become engaged in building chemistry models and simulations using Scratch programming language. Here is a teaser that explains the project. http://youtu.be/VmqbaaqvO18Resource Files Links:  ChemiConstruct ChemiConstruct Teaser Featured:  Not-Featured

Original Author:  Derek Breen Content Teaser I created this simple project to introduce the concept of Generative Art while attending the May ScratchEd Meetup at the MIT Media Lab. I created this simple project to introduce the concept of Generative Art while attending the May ScratchEd Meetup at the MIT Media Lab. It shows how creating just a few short stacks of code can generate changing visual and audio patterns. Try changing the values to get different effects.Resource Files Links:  Generative Art Demo Featured:  Not-Featured

Content Teaser I created an online simulation game, which my seventh grade students played at home to learn physical education content before coming to class.

This is an action research based study focusing on middle school physical education students learning invasion sports (such as soccer, basketball or ultimate Frisbee type games) concepts through an online simulation game created in Scratch.  The study compared two seventh grade classes’ knowledge and skills in invasion sports.  One group played the online game, while the other group did not.  Both groups received Teaching Games for Understanding lessons.Related Media Scratch Projects: Online simulation game to teach students physical education content. Scratch Project:  Online simulation game to teach students physical education content. Featured:  Not-Featured

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Original Author:  Julianne B. Ross-Kleinmann Content Teaser Computational Thinking Rubrics

How do you assess students creativity in Scratch? Well this was not an easy task and I am still in the developmental stages but here you go.

Two rubrics, one is a joural reflection rubric and the other is unit rubric based on project design, programming, and process (both journal and programming). Students used the unit based rubric to assess their first  and final projects.

Resource Files Other Files:  CT Rubric remix JBRK.xlsx Reflection-Journal-Rubric 12questions.docx Reflection-Journal-Rubric 13questions.docx Featured:  Not-Featured

Content Teaser An interview with 4th grader, Bailey and her science video game that she created to help raise her classmates test scores.

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Original Author:  Julianne B. Ross-Kleinmann Content Teaser Assessing 3rd Grade Content Area Vocabulary

In collaboration with the 3rd grade teachers at R.P. Connor Elementary School, a vocabulary assessment was created based on our Computational Thinking with Scratch Unit. This is (draft) is version 2.

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Original Author:  Julianne Ross-Kleinmann Content Teaser 3rd Grade: My Creative Computing Lesson 1 remix. Resource Files Other Files:  Creative Computing Lesson1a remix.docx Creative Computing Lesson 1b remix.doc Creative Computing Lesson 1b remix Checklist .doc Featured:  Not-Featured

Original Author:  Mitch Resnick, Karen Brennan Content Teaser In this Google+ Hangout On Air event, the ScratchEd Team shares and overview of what's new in Scratch 2.0 and what's good to know about the transition.

On May 3, 2013, the ScratchEd hosted a live streaming Google+ Hangout On Air to share an overview of what's new in Scratch 2.0 and what's good to know about the transition taking place May 6-9. Watch the webinar recording below or on YouTube.

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Original Author:  Richard Klein (Scratch User: Learnegy) Content Teaser Scratch is Missing is a writing/programming exercise disguised as a mystery story. See www.ScratchIsMissing.org for information and teacher resources. Scratch is Missing is a mystery story solved by your students using the Scratch programming language.  Students remix the existing Scratch starter project and finish the story.Resource Files Links:  Scratch is Missing companion website Scratch is Missing starter project Scratch is Missing Studio Featured:  Not-Featured

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Content Teaser Find out how teachers in Palo Alto, CA are integrating Scratch throughout a middle school STEM curriculum.

Ann Greyson is a Computer Science teacher working on integrating Scratch across the middle school curriculum. How? She co-teaches with subject teachers at Castilleja School in Palo Alto, California.Related Media Images:  Links:  Castilleja School website Featured:  Featured

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Content Teaser A short interview with Sarit -- a mentor in the Scratch Israel project, who attended this workshop and enjoyed helping the kids make their imagination come true.  Last week we held a Scratch workshop at IDC Herzliya, where home-schooled children from south of Israel came to program a "maze" game. After the workshop, we interviewed Sarit, a mentor in the Scratch Israel project, who attended this workshop and enjoyed helping the kids make their imagination come true. 

 

How was the workshop? What did you enjoy? 

 

Related Media Images:  Kids helping each other Giving the children some instructions Building a maze Giving the children some more instructions Helping children Featured:  Not-Featured

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Content Teaser A Q&A interview about one educator's work introducing Scratch to prison inmates.

Jon Bustillo is a Ph.D. student in the Basque Country in Northern Spain. His dissertation work centers on his experiences helping prison inmates learn Scratch and develop their creativity. In this Q&A interview, he describes his research and shares some of the initial findings.

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Original Author:  Janet Dee Content Teaser What great ideas come from teachers gathering to generate a project for introducing High School students to computer science?

 

At this meetup we had quite a few High School teachers looking for strategies and activities with Scratch for an Introduction to Programming course.  We decided to use Breakout, a game that is common to beginning programming curricula. Colm was brand new to Scratch so he teamed up with Laura, a ScratchEd intern and created in Scratch 1.4. Pam and I worked online in Scratch 2.0.  Both “teams” ended up with a basic knockout game that they are eager to build upon.

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Original Author:  Torbjorn Skauli Content Teaser Demonstrate Scratch at public events! Here is a poster and a handout.

One way to spread interest in creative use of computers is to exhibit Scratch at exhibits and other events for the public. This has worked well at a variety of events and festivals aimed at families and youths, including Maker Faires and science exhibits as well as a music festival. Here is a poster in PowerPoint format which can be printed in large size. I also enclose a small handout which can be printed in four copies on a double-sided sheet of paper. You may want to edit these as you like. Bring your kids and a few old laptops and show off Scratch to to others!Resource Files Other Files:  Scratch-poster English.ppt Small handout for Scratch.doc Featured:  Not-Featured

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Original Author:  Juan Carlos López García Content Teaser Experiencia en la que se aprovechó el potencial de la programación de computadores con Scratch para que los estudiantes aprendieran a identificar, expresar y regular sus emociones. Resource Files Links:  Consultar el documento... Featured:  Not-Featured

Original Author:  Juan Carlos López García Content Teaser Actualmente se consolida un movimiento que propone que todos los estudiantes, de todas las escuelas, aprendan a programar computadores. Reseñamos aquí una de esas iniciativas: code.org. Resource Files Links:  Consulte el documento... Featured:  Not-Featured