Introduction to Scratch Programming

and Other Coding Fun!

Stacey Clark – TRTJenna Tea- 3rd grade

Pinebrook Elementary

What is computer programming?

Computer programming is…

A list of instructions telling a computer what actions to do.

Computer programming has many different languages.

JavaScript

C++

Scratch Programming

Getting Started

Introduction to Scratch

http://vimeo.com/65583694

Some examples of what Scratch can do

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/13341218/

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/40735206/

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/10015059/

What Scratch looks like

Ideas for a Scratch Club

• Task cards of specific skills

• Using other programs as examples

• Fixing a broken program or adding to a program

Your turn to try!

• Go to https://scratch.mit.edu/• Click ‘Join Scratch’ if you would like

to make an account• Click ‘Create’ if you would like to

just play around

Resources• Task cards:

https://scratch.mit.edu/help/cards/

• Hour of code: http://code.org/learn

• Scratch for Educators: https://scratch.mit.edu/educators/

More Programming Ideas

• Bee Bots• Lego Mindstorm Robots•Makey Makeys

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