This resource is the fourth in a series of five lessons that introduces students to the concepts of programming in Scratch. This resource equips students with essential debugging skills, a critical ...

Students will apply their knowledge of physical science concepts to create a lunar lander game using Scratch. They will use Vernier force and acceleration sensors to understand forces and integrate ...

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has once again joined forces with FutureLearn and Teach Computing. This time it is to offer a course that introduces the fundamentals of computing using the block-based ...

I taught a week-long camp last summer titled ‘Beginning Game Programming” — I had a morning session (8am-12pm) and an afternoon session (1pm-5pm), and each class had 16 kids anxious to learn some new ...

Teaching kids coding is one of the current buzz topics in schools, and rightly so. Programming is a vital skill, so much so that the National Curriculum in the UK–the government’s official guidelines ...

As homebound students and teachers looked for online resources during the pandemic, many turned to Scratch, a free coding system for kids developed by the MIT Media Lab. Scratch was already a popular ...

On January 2, our group at the MIT Media Lab introduced a new generation of Scratch, called Scratch 3.0. Much has changed since we introduced the first generation of our Scratch programming language ...