Visual Programming

Explores an activity with Infants students using Scratch to create a game based story arc suitable for students in Prep to interact with. The story arc used is the hero's journey in this example. Students should be able to identify with this in most stories / videos they have been exposed to even at this early stage.

An interesting discussion takes place considering how successful many students were in understanding and applying the computational concepts required by Scratch rather than Scratch Jnr, as well as extending their Literacy capabilities by introducing new characters such as a wizard to enhance the narrative.

This video demonstrates how Scratch Jr can be used to promote literacy through simple visual storytelling. The video guides viewers through adding characters and animating them through simple visual programming.

This video demonstrates how Scratch can be downloaded and used in offline mode. The video guides viewers through navigation of this visual programming environment and shares ideas for integration across different learning areas.