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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