Introduction to Scratch
Teachers: Lesson Plan here
Students, if you are working by yourself, all lesson materials are available below.
Starter: Journaling
On a piece of paper, write a paragraph responding to the prompt, "What skills do you think it takes to be a successful programmer?" Reflect on skills discussed in the Computational Thinking lesson.
Remember: Anyone can be a programmer! Some of the key skills are perseverence (not giving up when a project becmoes difficult), logical thinking, and debugging (working to fix issues in the original program). These are all learned skills, no one is a "natural born" programmer!
Scratch Introduction
Work through the Slides to learn about Scratch. Videos are embedded into the Slides if you prefer to watch. Have Scratch open in another tab to work through challenges as they come up!