A great way to teach logic and problem solving to students of all ages

How I Use It

I have used Scratch in many different ways at several different grade levels. Perhaps my favorite is when I used it with my 8th grade Technology Exploratory classes. Throughout the quarter, I walked students through the skills necessary to create a simple video game. At the beginning of each class, I would demonstrate one of the skills (keeping score, setting up a timer, etc), we would build one on the Smartboard as a class, then students would use the remainder of the lab time to create their own copy of the code. After we completed all the components, I give the students several debugging exercises to work through.