Starting in Scratch

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What is Scratch?

Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children and a coding language with a simple visual interface that allows young people to create digital stories, games, and animations.

Millions of people are creating Scratch projects in a wide variety of settings, including homes, schools, museums, libraries, and community centers.

Getting Started

To get started, go to the official Scratch website here:

https://scratch.mit.edu/

Signing in or Joining

You may already have a Scratch account. If so, just click Sign in

If you don't you'll want to click the Join button or click this link:

https://scratch.mit.edu/join

Joining takes a bit of time but means that all your projects will be saved and available wherever you are

A quick tour

Watch and follow this first to get to know a bit about Scratch and how it works.

You'll need to follow along so after you click on the video, click the YouTube logo. This will open it in a new tab then you can easily switch between Scratch and YouTube.

Your first activities

Now it's time to learn more of the skills you'll need.

To get started click on the Ideas menu

This screen will appear:

Now just click on Getting started.

What next?

Now you have these skills, start exploring some of the other tutorials. Have a go at something from each of the project types. Try:

Animation
Art
Music
Games
Stories

Just click on the Ideas menu then choose something from each type.

Already really good at Scratch?

If you already have great Scratch skills, check in with me for your next activities.