Ready for some more Scratch Challenges? Let's take a look back at our 3rd week of daily challenges. During that week, we had fun with clones, turned things upside-down for April Fool's Day, concentrated on our breathing and more! If you aren't caught up, you can find previous challenges …
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For our second week of staying at home back in late March, the coding challenges involved bunnies & snowflakes, making our own sprites, translating hopeful messages into other languages, and more! If you're new here (welcome!), you can find the first set of Scratch Challenges here. Remember, …
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Since we're spending so much time at home these days, we've been trying to keep things interesting for the people passing by our house. We put a bear in the window for the neighborhood bear hunt. We've painted rocks. And we've done SO MUCH chalk art. My kids tell me that this is a Roblox Noob. …
We’re all spending a lot more time at home these days. I miss teaching coding classes, but with our time at home, I’ve been trying to stay connected and to help kids keep coding. In my Scratch classes, while we waited for everyone to arrive, I would put a “warm-up challenge" on the board. It was …
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Topic #1 for our Intermediate Scratchers this week was using the broadcast blocks to control the flow of action in our code. In our last set of classes, I’d watched the students try to control flow through other events: key presses, waits, background switching, etc. So I knew they’d be excited to …
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Find the Scratch project page here. Windy Day is a project for beginner game builders. In this project we’ll include the basic game concept of setting a challenge to overcome. We’ll use events to move sprites and sensing to control the outcome of the game. We’ll also use a simple technique for …
