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Introducing Creative Computing with Scratch

This document provides an introduction to the Scratch programming environment. It outlines an activity where students will be introduced to computational creation using Scratch by watching an overview video or exploring sample projects. The activity suggests asking students about their experiences with computers and introducing Scratch by showing the overview video and sample projects. Students will then be asked to imagine what types of projects they want to create with Scratch over the next several sessions. The document provides reflection prompts, resources, notes, and areas to review student work.

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Introducing Creative Computing with Scratch

This document provides an introduction to the Scratch programming environment. It outlines an activity where students will be introduced to computational creation using Scratch by watching an overview video or exploring sample projects. The activity suggests asking students about their experiences with computers and introducing Scratch by showing the overview video and sample projects. Students will then be asked to imagine what types of projects they want to create with Scratch over the next several sessions. The document provides reflection prompts, resources, notes, and areas to review student work.

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UNIT 0 ACTIVITY

INTRODUCING OBJECTIVES
By completing this activity, students will:

SCRATCH + be introduced to computational creation with the


Scratch programming environment by watching
the Scratch overview video or exploring sample
SUGGESTED TIME projects
5–15 MINUTES + be able to imagine possibilities for their own
Scratch-based computational creation

ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION RESOURCES

❑ Ask students about their experiences with computers ❑ projector for showing Scratch overview video
using the reflection prompts to the right. (optional)
❑ Scratch overview video
❑ Introduce students to creative computing with Scratch
[Link]
and the range of projects they will be able to create by
[Link]
showing the Scratch overview video and some sample
❑ sample projects studio
projects that your students will find engaging and
[Link]
inspiring. Explain that over the next several sessions
they will be creating their own interactive
computational media with Scratch. REFLECTION PROMPTS
❑ What will you create? Ask students to imagine what
types of projects they want to create with Scratch. + What are the different ways you interact with
computers?
+ How many of those ways involve being creative with
computers?

REVIEWING STUDENT WORK

+ Did students brainstorm a diverse range of project


ideas? If not, try showing a wide variety of projects
to give students a sense of the possibilities.

NOTES NOTES TO SELF

+ If you don’t have internet access, download the Scratch ❑ _______________________


overview video from Vimeo before class, available at
[Link] ❑ _______________________
+ Instead of writing out their answers to the reflections
prompts, encourage students to get creative by ❑ _______________________
drawing their responses. (e.g., “Draw different ways you ❑ _______________________
interact with computers.”)
GETTING STARTED
INTRODUCING NAME:

SCRATCH RESPOND TO THE FOLLOWING REFLECTION PROMPTS

REFLECTIONS
USING THE SPACE PROVIDED BELOW OR IN YOUR
DESIGN JOURNAL.

What are the different ways you interact with computers?

How many of those ways involve being creative with computers?

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