Great summer resource for 2024
Creating Scratch Jr animations while learning about the 2024 Olympics is a great cross curricular activity.
Scratch Jr (a free app on Apple and Android devices) has a super child friendly interface, ideal for young children, allowing them to learn basic programming concepts by sequencing command blocks to create simple animations.
Create animated simulations of the following sports
- Relay race
- Swimming
- Sailing
- Archery
- Hurdles
- Gymnastics
- Football (Soccer) Penalty and Passing
- Basketball
- Cycling
This resource introduces the following fundamental programming concepts.
- Sequencing
- Loops
- Events
- Conditionals
- Parallelism
- Testing and Debugging
Each tutorial has clear and concise, child friendly instructions, graphical guidance and example block sequences so students can feel confident making their own coded animations.
By following these tutorials students will be able to sequence commands and events to create fun animations, practice new language as they describe what is happening and write their own innovations too!
All of these ideas and concepts are transferable so children can begin to develop animations of their own, reflecting their own favourite activities, hobbies and sports.
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