Scratch is a programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations -- and share your creations with others around the world. In the process of designing and programming Scratch projects, young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.

Didactical hours:

Pedagogical context

Engaging in scientific reasoning:

Exploring

Educational Objective:

Inquiry cycle:

Teacher ICT competency level:

Level of difficulty:

Medium (Teacher Guidance is needed at some stages of the process)

Level of interaction:

High (All parameters of the experiment should be defined by the use)

Supporting students with learning difficulties ans special needs:

No specific provisions

References:

"Resnick, M., Maloney, J., Monroy-Hernandez, A., Rusk, N., Eastmond, E., Brennan, K., Millner, A., Rosenbaum, E., Silver, J., Silverman, B., & Kafai, Y. (2009). Scratch: Programming for All. Communications of the ACM, vol. 52, no. 11, pp. 60-67 (Nov. 2009). http://www.media.mit.edu/~mres/papers/Scratch-CACM-final.pdf Maloney, J., Resnick, M., Rusk, N., Silverman, B., & Eastmond, E. (2010). The Scratch Programming Language and Environment. ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE), vol. 10, no. 4 (November 2010). http://web.media.mit.edu/~jmaloney/papers/ScratchLangAndEnvironment.pdf "

User manual link:

Manual

Technical description

Technical requirements:

CC BY-SA http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Suitable for Mobile Devices?:

Not suitable

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