All of my sixth grade students take a ten-minutes typing quiz every Monday. We track their typing speed and accuracy so that we can see their improvement over the course of the quarter. Last week after the test was over the whole class clustered around one student (I don’t use the students’ names here to [...]
Posted on February 17th, 2009 by Ms. Ruthie Hansen
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The challenge: Make an animation where each letter of your name bumps into the next letter in a chain reaction.
The solutions: Some of the most interesting and creative scratch animations I’ve seen. Keep in mind these were created after only three class sessions exploring the scratch programming language!
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Posted on February 10th, 2009 by Ms. Ruthie Hansen
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Sixth grade students are learning a new programming language called Scratch. Scratch is a programming language for kids developed at MIT. The kids have completed several smaller projects in class, and soon each student will get to design and develop an original game in Scratch.
Here are a couple of examples from a recent [...]
Posted on February 10th, 2009 by Ms. Ruthie Hansen
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