2020. What can be said that hasn't been said before? I started out the year teaching in-person classes in Scratch and Python. I had just begun my registration for Spring classes when the entire world locked down. I'm thankful to have been able to move my classes to an online format (although I look …
Learning from Home: 5 More Scratch Challenges
We've settled into somewhat of a routine around here. School from home is starting to feel "normal," except for the fact that my kids really miss their friends. But working at their own pace has freed up some time in their day for them to choose their own activities, which they love! Of course …
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Still Home, Still Coding: 5 More Scratch Challenges
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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5 More Scratch Challenges for Coding at Home
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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6 Scratch Challenges for Coding at Home
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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Windy Day – Scratch Project
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 …
