Resources under 'Scratch Tutorials'

This is done as a multiple step process and will be done over several classes.  A five lesson plan is shown below. Each student will create their own version of this game with their own character and background, and their own rules for movement/food/enemy. There are  enough variations to keep the game interesting and different [...]

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This time, lets use the cat sprite and have it create some defined shapes on the stage. For example, if the cat is to draw a square, it could walk around the stage in a square and hold a pen down to do the drawing. The ‘Pen Down’ command is used to put the pen [...]

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This is a simple first program in Scratch. Start Scratch. Scratch has 3 main areas – the area with the program blocks, a central open area where the script is placed by moving blocks and a stage.The default character or Sprite as it is called is the Scratch Cat. In this simple example, the cat [...]

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