Scratch Jr
ScratchJr on iPad Explorations:
Scratch Jr on Chromebook Explorations:
- If you have never (or barely) used ScratchJr in the past, complete the ScratchJr Learning Activities.
- If you have used ScratchJr in the past, choose of of the following:
- Create an All About Me ScratchJr program using your face on a character and your voice. You can see my example here.
- Check out the ScratchJr Curricula and create exemplars for the ideas there.
- Think of something where your students would typically draw a picture or write something or make a poster or make a movie, etc. to show that they know a topic. Create an exemplar ScratchJr project for this and plan to have your students show their knowledge this way instead. Can't come up with one? Check the ScratchJr Project Ideas below.
- Check out Sam Patterson's Designing a Digital Learning Experience in ScratchJr and Learn Reading Through Code. What learning experience could you create for your students OR what learning experience could your students create for someone else in their class or for a younger class? Partner with someone and airdrop your Scratch Jr project to them and have them finish it.
- If you have never (or barely) used ScratchJr in the past, complete the ScratchJr Learning Activities.
- If you have used ScratchJr in the past, choose one of the following:
- Create an All About Me ScratchJr program using your face on a character and your voice. You can see my example here.
- Check out the ScratchJr Curricula and create exemplars for the ideas there.
- Think of something where your students would typically draw a picture or write something or make a poster or make a movie, etc. to show that they know a topic. Create an exemplar ScratchJr project for this and plan to have your students show their knowledge this way instead.
ScratchJr Resources:
ScratchJr Project Ideas:
- ScratchJr Teaching Activities
- ScratchJr Curricula
- ScratchJr Assessments
- ScratchJr Tips & Hints
- PBS Kids ScratchJr
- Beyond The Hour of Code: ScratchJr Quick Start
- ScratchJr YouTube Playlist
- The Water Cycle (Video)
- ScratchJr Safari Animals Lesson Plan
- Phil Bagge Lesson Ideas:
- The Official ScratchJr Book by Marina Bers & Mitchel Resnick
- Models of:
- Life cycles
- Food chains
- Plant Pollination
- Day to Night
- Phases of the Moon
- Animal/Habitat interactive/animation
- Math stories
- Retell a story
- Write, illustrate, and animate a story
- Create an alternate ending to a story
- Progressive stories where each student adds a scene
- Biographies
- Virtual Word Walls
- Interactive Greeting Cards