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=Welcome to Scratchtastic!=

**SCRATCH**
[|What is Scratch?] It is an educational programming language created by Lifelong Kindergartener at MIT in 2007.

Click here to [|download] Scratch.

Activities and skills:

 * Animations
 * Simulations
 * Computer games
 * Interactive projects
 * Graphic designs
 * Music projects
 * Interactive Storytelling
 * Programming concepts

Examples of how Scratch can be used in Middle School science and math classrooms- []

P**resentations** [|Lawn Mower] Scratch Project [|Sound Circle] Scratch Project [|Optical Illusion] Scratch Project


 * Brainstormed uses of Scratch in the Classroom:**

Car race games that uses random numbers to move the cars, and calculates the speed of the car Virtual genie to learn about random nature of flipping a coin. Drawing tesselations/fractals, using the integration of rich media such as images and music Create you own adventure stories Create a scratch club Get students to create games/activities that can be used to teach content in lower grades, e.g. geography games for teaching elementary students about the states Get students to create working scratch cards in Scratch, that highlight one idea and add them to a gallery, using tags to aid in searching Get students to plan/storyboard before creating a scratch project Get ideas for using Scratch in Maths from prior experience with Logo or from Logo based activities/exercises. Science-- water cycle, rock formation, Body Systems-- how food goes through digestive track Castle Projects (social studies) shared through galleries 4th graders and climate-- create their own animal perfectly adapted to a particular climate Painted the animal, made backgrounds-- animals changed color depending on temperature animated thermometer which chnaged based on time of year International Folk Tales or proverbs--illustrated -- ask the Scratch Kids Use pen tool to create Fahrenhieit/Centigrade translation tool Use Pico tool to control lego robot-- see Gheeta's puppoet show with Scratch in the bacjkgournd Grades-4-6: Graphic Novels-- Collaboration between Art and Computer, stories written in class,drawn in art, "Scratched" in computer Collaboration among kids changing roles each week to complete a project. 3 students creating an activity and introduce to the class Can children create a project and collaborate with children from other countries Great potential for remixing-- each project is added on (also see IEarn.org) Shouldn't be used for everything-- but is a wonderful communication too using photos and interactivity Ease of use to upload to great advantage Kids can work from home-- don't need "Inspiration!" Use Scratch Community as data points-- ie, gather data from comment sections and report results in Scratch Ways of children to gather and report on data within the community

How Scratch Fosters Student Creativity-
 * Research/Articles-**

Shall We Learn Tutorials [|Scratch Tutorials] Three Part Course with videos and handouts:[| http://learnscratch.org/] Support Network- participate in discussions about Scratch, share stories, locate resources[| http://scratched.media.mit.edu/] 23 Scratch Projects with scripts, directions and/or code[| http://www.nebomusic.net/scratch.html] Lesson Plans with rubrics and self-assessments- [] Scratch Cards- A quick way to learn new code[| http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Support/Scratch_Cards] Scratch helpscreens- []
 * Resources:**

[| http://need2learn.net/course/view.php?id=95]
 * Course on Scratch:**

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=Example Scripts=