Be a Maker
Let's do some coding!!
Materials needed:
Piece of graph paper and a pencil
Love to code?
With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations with others in the online community.
Scratch helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively — essential skills for life in the 21st century.
Scratch is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. It is provided free of charge.
Find new ways to use your old Lego bricks. Create a free account (no email confirmation required) and tell Rebrickable which sets you own. Their giant database of My Own Creation (MOC) instructions will return a list of projects you can make with bricks you already have. Set your search to “Free MOC’s” to view full instructions at no cost. Click on the logo to get started.
GREAT FOR GRADES 3-8
Lego-style brick building app. Full catalog of brick types and colors. No student account required to build projects. Click on the workshop to get started. There are tutorials and videos to help students understand the application.
