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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. Scratch is designed, developed, and moderated by the Scratch Foundation, a nonprofit organization.
Scratch promotes computational thinking and problem solving skills; creative teaching and learning; self-expression and collaboration; and equity in computing.
Step 1: Go to the Scratch website by clicking here: https://scratch.mit.edu/.
Step 2: Click on Create in the top menu bar. (We are not creating an account today or saving your work. If you want to create an account, you can do this at home with your parent's help and permission.)
Step 3: Use Scratch to "map" a new sound to your computer's keyboard keys. Watch the instructional video below.
Step 4: Design Challenge
Using Scratch, assign at least three sounds to three keys on your keyboard then connect your Makey Makey and your graphite pencil drawing from last class to control those sounds. NOTE: Feel free to create a new "Sketch It Play It" drawing if you like. Use the four examples below to give you some ideas!
Example #1:
A science teacher drew the solar system in the "Sketch It Play It" exercise and then downloaded the sounds of each planet (yes, planets make sounds!) and then assigned those sounds to various keys on the keyboard using Scratch.
Example # 2
Geometric shape identifier. This project makes creative use of the "earth" (ground). Using one finger the user is able to operate this project.
Example # 3
Find the missing letter.
Example # 4
Yoda speaks!
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