Monday, March 8, 2010

Re: Scratch

I use Scratch with students in Grades 4 and 5. Below are some of my favo=
rite resources for planning classes.
Best wishes,
Julia Tebbets
Lower School Technology Coordinator
Sewickley Academy

Printable cards from the Scratch Team at MIT with 12 samples of code and =
graphics showing
what they do: http://scratch.wik.is/Support/Scratch_Cards

Excellent course of Scratch video tutorials with lessons and extension ac=
tivities:
http://learnscratch.org/

Lesson plans teaching the concepts of sequence, iteration, conditional st=
atements, variables, and
messages (interaction between objects): http://www.redware.com/scratch/

Plans from award-winning Scratch class in Germany (link to the English ve=
rsion of the site is at the top left of the page): http://www.funlearning=
.de/

Kevin Karplus=92s after-school Scratch club in California publishes a new=
sletter of their activities
http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~karplus/tech_club/
and sample projects at http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~karplus/scratch_programs/

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