A Structured Introduction to Scratch 3 Programming - 1 What is Scratch v3

WRITTEN FOR THE NEWLY RELEASED SCRATCH 3

In my series of Scratch projects, students are encouraged to learn through doing - creating projects that encourage learning.

In this NEW series of lessons for Scratch 3, I provide a more structured approach, looking in detail at Scratch programming tools. Each tool is explored through simple projects, and students then go on to further explore using guided project worksheets.

1. What is Scratch v3

The following lessons will be published as a package shortly - please Follow Me to be kept up to date with their publication.

1. Events and Triggers
2. Controls
3. Motion and the Stage
4. Data Variables
5. Operations - number
6. Operations - text
7. The Graphics editor

The lessons comprise:

• a fully animated PowerPoint with explanatory slides, together with the project instructions
• a Word document with the PowerPoint project instruction slides printed 2 to a page as a handout for students to follow
• accompanying fully-working Scratch3 project files for students and teachers

Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions, and a BIG BIG thanks for looking (as a full time practising teacher, I KNOW how time consuming this process can be).

ALL my postings are FULLY “classroom-tested” - before I publish, my lessons are tested by both myself and colleagues, rigorously evaluated and discussed, and continually updated to maximise their effectiveness.

But there is always the possibility of error and room for improvement, so do please provide constructive feedback.

Teacher/Author: Barrie James

Search words: scratch, computer, programming, coding, algorithm