These slides and the video capture the key ideas that are covered in the class. These are designed to be self-contained. We strongly recommend that parents and students review these slides/video and try out the small code snippets before and while attempting the independent activity for the class.

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Class 1 – Course Introduction, Create a Scratch Account

Create a Scratch Account

Class Notes (Create Scratch Account)

Class Notes (Course Introduction)

There are three important steps to creating Scratch Account

Create an account
Make sure your username is different from your real name
Verify your email to enable your account for sharing

How to Submit Assignments

Guidelines to submit Independent activities

Common Problems

Don’t see the Orange Share button? This video might help.

Class 2 – Sprite, your new friend

Class Material and Notes

Class Notes Class Project

Create a simple animation using Scratch Program. Concepts covered –

Introduction to Scratch
Adding Sprites
Changing Backdrops
Creating simple comic

Independent Activity

Create a simple animation using Scratch Program.

Some more Bonus Ideas
Paint attractive backgrounds and sprites.
Use text to speech block
Type text on backdrop and sprites

Common Mistakes
Reset Everything at the Beginning – The Sprites do not come back to original position and/or are hidden if we click the flag multiple times. (See the video )

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Class 3 – Sprite wants to draw

Class Material

Class Notes, Class Project

Concepts covered include –

Number line – XY coordinates
Go to and Glide blocks
Pen block – Drawing

Independent Activity

Create a simple drawing using Scratch Program.

Some more Bonus ideas
Draw a circle or semi-circle, polygon pattern, spiral, donut etc.

Common Mistakes
Set vs change pen color – See the video to make sure you are using the set and change blocks correctly.

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Class 4 – Sprite wants to dance

Class Material

Class Notes, Class Project

The video teaches how to make a dance party on the Scratch platform. The concepts covered in the video are –

Costume change
Move and glide blocks
Flip sprites
Add music

Independent Activity

Create a dance party.

Some More Bonus Ideas
Make the sprite do a somersault
Use color effects, fisheye effect, whirl effect , day/night effect, ghost effect,
Create mosaic of sprites

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Class 5 – Sprite wants an answer

Class Material

Class Notes, Class Project

Create a quiz game on the Scratch platform. The concepts covered in the video are –

Ask blocks
If, Then,Else
Repeat Until
Operators

Independent Activity

Create a quiz

Common Mistakes

In this activity we use REPEAT UNTIL to create a persistent quiz master who asks us questions till a correct answer is given. This video talks in detail about this feature. This video takes a deeper look and identifies the common problems when using this feature.

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Class 6 – Mid Term Revision and Quiz

Class Material (Live Quiz)

Key Learning Objectives

Revise the concepts covered so far with an interactive quiz.
Provide students a chance to consolidate their learning and build an independent project of their choice.

Independent Activity

Independent Activity and Marking Criteria

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Class 7 – Sprite wants to play maze game

Class Material

Class Notes, Class Project

In this video we will learn how to make a maze game on the Scratch platform. The concepts covered in the video are –

Sensing Blocks
If, Then,Else
Loops

Independent Activity

Independent Activity

Create a Maze Game

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Class 8 – Introducing variables through paint game

Class Material

Class Notes, Class Project

Learn how to build a Paint game in Scratch.

Learn about variables:

What variables are, how they work?
How can variables be defined, set and changed?
How can we see the value of variables?
The use of sliders

Independent Activity

Create a Paint Game

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A common Problem

Please take a look at this video where we discuss a problem that students sometimes run into where they see that the color slider appears to not work. In solving this problem, we also come up with an enhanced project.