1 Learning from Scratch Pete Benson U of Michigan School of Ed, Secondary MAC Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellow

2 What is Scratch? platform for writing stories, games, simulations, and more generally, learning to program think LEGO for programming computers simple, but not simplistic free, 100% browser-based, projects stored in cloud, large community built around sharing

3 Who might use it? Across the curriculum: art, music, science, math, humanities After school programs in the media center students (or teachers) create apps in a browser K-14

4 Poll: what do you do? A. elementary teacher B. middle/high school teacher C. media specialist D. teacher educator E. other

5 What you will see tutorial: drawing editor tutorial: script editor building apps demos of existing apps

6 Demo/tutorial: Storybook

7 Tutorial: drawing editor

8 Demo/tutorial: The tennis ball

9 Tutorial: Video motionVideo motion

10 Tutorial: Turtle graphicsTurtle graphics

11 Overview: script editor

12 Demo: At the racesAt the races

13 Demo: BilliardsBilliards

14 Example: Ramp JumpRamp Jump

15 Example: RadioactiveRadioactive

16 Tutorial: Bouncing off the wallsBouncing off the walls

17 Tutorial: Vehicle on a trackVehicle on a track

18 Share and remix......is what Scratch is all about.

19 Questions?