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With Scratch, you can use block coding to program your own games, animations, and interactive stories. You can share your projects online, as well as find, play, and comment on others' projects. Perfect for ages 8-16.
With Scratch, you can use block coding to program your own games, animations, and interactive stories. You can share your projects online, as well as find, play, and comment on others' projects. Perfect for ages 8-16.
Teacher Account Creation
Teacher Account Creation
With a Teacher account, you can create a class and student accounts, reset student passwords, organize projects into studios, and monitor student comments.
- Sign up for a Teacher Account by going to scratch.mit.edu/educators/register
- You will need to confirm your email address. Approval may take up to 24 hours.
- Once your account is approved, you will see a My Classes button when you log in.
Resources to Get You Started
Resources to Get You Started
After you sign up, you'll get an email with these links to get you started.
- Learn How to Make a Project
- Starter Projects
- Community Guidelines
- Teacher Accounts FAQ
- Explore Educator Resources
- Connect with other Scratchers/ Scratch Studio
- Coding Cards (explains what some of the blocks do in some of the activities on Scratch.
- Scratch Wiki (search for blocks to learn about their function, or anything else.)
Creating Classes
Creating Classes
Classes allow teachers to manage student participation on Scratch, organize student projects into studios and monitor student comments. This video tutorial walks you through the steps to create a class, add students, and create studios where students can share their projects.
Digital Citizenship
Digital Citizenship
Teaching digital citizenship skills is important for any online activity. With Scratch, students should learn about digital etiquette, strong passwords, and giving credit to a project's creator when copying and remixing their work. Here are some lessons/activities you can use with your students.
Teaching digital citizenship skills is important for any online activity. With Scratch, students should learn about digital etiquette, strong passwords, and giving credit to a project's creator when copying and remixing their work. Here are some lessons/activities you can use with your students.
Tutorials
Tutorials
One of the best ways to learn Scratch is go through some Tutorials. You can find these by clicking on Ideas at the top of the Scratch page. We recommended starting with the Animate A Name tutorial.
We've highlighted some more of our favorite tutorials below.
CS First
CS First
CS First is Google's free online coding curriculum, created with 4th-8th grade students in mind. Teachers can assign lessons and view student progress. There are very helpful how-to videos embedded in the lessons, so students can work through the units without much guidance from the teacher.
CS First is Google's free online coding curriculum, created with 4th-8th grade students in mind. Teachers can assign lessons and view student progress. There are very helpful how-to videos embedded in the lessons, so students can work through the units without much guidance from the teacher.
Getting Started
Getting Started
- Teachers can Sign Up with Google and create a class at https://csfirst.withgoogle.com/s/en/home
- For students, share the link or they can type this shortcut to get to the CS First website: g.co/CSFirst
- Students click on Sign up and select Student
- Enter the class code.
- Students write down their username and password (can not be changed)
6. The teacher can see the usernames and passwords in their Teacher account under People, but will need to add the students names to help keep track. You will notice a pencil icon when you mouse over the name field. Click on it to edit.
Teacher Quick-Start Guide (1 page)
Getting Started Guide (more detailed info)
Create a Catching Game
Create a Catching Game
Here's a project that one of the Tech Coaches, Marina Maldonado, adapted from a lesson online to create a catching game in scratch. If possible, it helps to project a screen with Scratch, as well as a separate screen with the presentation open, to work through the steps with students.
Here's a project that one of the Tech Coaches, Marina Maldonado, adapted from a lesson online to create a catching game in scratch. If possible, it helps to project a screen with Scratch, as well as a separate screen with the presentation open, to work through the steps with students.
For those that complete the basics, Marina provided some screencasts to add some more features to their catching game.
For those that complete the basics, Marina provided some screencasts to add some more features to their catching game.
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