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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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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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 6th grade students,
Today was your first taste of Scratch, a programming language for kids from MIT that we will be learning and using for the next four weeks in class. Your homework assignment for tonight is to download Scratch at home (free!) and show a sibling or parent one of the things you learned [...]
Posted on February 11th, 2008 by Ms. Ruthie Hansen
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My sixth grade classes continue to study programming using Scratch. Each student created a game or an application (from scratch, so to speak…), and the (mostly) finished projects are available online on the Scratch Web site.
This week the students were thrilled to get a chance to start using scratch boards in their programming projects. [...]
Posted on October 23rd, 2007 by Ms. Ruthie Hansen
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Dear 6th Grade Students,
We are deep into our computer programming unit using a new programming environment called Scratch. Scratch was developed at MIT to provide an easy and intuitive way for young people to create animations, interactive games and even basic software applications. All of the code is in drag and drop “blocks” which fit [...]
Posted on October 9th, 2007 by Ms. Ruthie Hansen
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