Lately I’ve noticed that a lot of people are coming to this website after searching on Google for “Scratch Projects” or “Scratch project ideas.” Right now in class my sixth grade students are just starting to make their final Scratch projects– each student has about seven class periods to develop and program an original game [...]
Posted on November 11th, 2009 by Ms. Ruthie Hansen
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Sixth graders are bringing the world outside the computer into their Scratch games with a sensor board called the PicoBoard. The PicoBoard has a light sensor, a sound sensor, a slider, a button, and four electrical resistance sensors.
By drawing a thick line with graphite on a regular piece of paper, students are able to use [...]
Posted on November 9th, 2009 by Ms. Ruthie Hansen
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I advise the middle school newspaper, also known as the Jammed Locker. This year participation has been so high that I’ve requested an iCart of laptops to be delivered to the computer lab to supplement the 25 iMacs I have in the computer lab.
On Thursday afternoons the student journalists stream into the lab, drop their [...]
Posted on October 29th, 2009 by Ms. Ruthie Hansen
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Sixth grade students are learning to program using Scratch. Right now they are designing musical instruments and teaching themselves how to play them. The test is to play “Mary Had a Little Lamb” for the teacher on demand. In addition to mulling over the fate of the lamb (”Why does it say she HAD a [...]
Posted on October 20th, 2009 by Ms. Ruthie Hansen
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This week in computer class sixth graders used ComicLife to translate the school’s acceptable use policy for computing into eye-catching, comic-style posters to help educate the rest of the school about what is allowed and not allowed when it comes to school computers. The students, working in pairs, studied the original text of the policy, [...]
Posted on September 27th, 2009 by Ms. Ruthie Hansen
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Both my sixth grade classes and my fifth grade classes are well into the Keyboarding for Kids program right now. There are a few main points about the goals of the program that I want to clarify.
First of all, the ultimate goal of this exercise is that each student will be able to type quickly [...]
Posted on September 25th, 2009 by Ms. Ruthie Hansen
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Dear sixth graders,
If you haven’t already done so, please download Scratch at home so that you can play with it, show off your mad programming skills to your parents, siblings and friends, and work on the game you are making in class.
Scratch is FREE to download, and it doesn’t take up a lot of space [...]
Posted on May 8th, 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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Dear Students,
Many of you have asked me about how to create a CNet account. This is the name and password that you need to connect to the uchicago wireless network at school or anywhere on the University campus. If you bring your own laptop to school, you need a CNet account to get [...]
Posted on October 24th, 2008 by Ms. Ruthie Hansen
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