EdScratch (based on Scratch, by MIT) is a little bit more complicated than EdBlocks. While the two are very similar, EdScratch offers more customization and more challenging lessons. The drag and drop style is still very user friendly but rather than having images for descriptions there are words. This is where the lessons start to get into focusing on students reflecting on their programs and determining how to tweak it to better reach an objective. Students get to consider ideas such as how speed affects accuracy, how the order of a program affects what happens, and how to use automation to more effectively set up programs.
There are over 200 pages in the activity book for EdScratch with 6 different units each with many different lessons. Here are some of the lesson ideas that Microbric offers:
Programming Edison to drive different shapes (circle, triangle, hexagons, etc.)
Using Edison to help tell a story (pg 76 in the student activity book, check it out I think it sounds pretty amazing!)
Programming Edison robots to play music (and even play in a round!)
So much more!!!
So where do we find these great resources? Good question! If you go to Edison's website you can find many wonderful resources! Best yet, the resources are FREE! It doesn't get much better than that! There is also a page (below) that provides you an activity mat that you can use with the Edison robots. They suggest to print it off at a local shop to get it done right but if you are savvy I bet you can figure it out on your own (I honestly haven't yet but my printing skills are not as strong as yours may be).
If you are anything like me, you are hoping that the person designing this site is nice enough to provide you links to the resources you want rather than expecting you to find them all yourself... Good news! Check out the links below to find out just where to go!