Week One Working with Scratch

Today students learned that in order to for sprites to move you must give them directions. To develop understanding of the concept of code we demonstrated by having students give commands to have a student walk around a chair: Students could only give one instruction at a time and they had to use either he words: move ( ) steps or rotate ( ) degrees.

On the program we drew a square and students practiced:

Students discovered how to change their sprite, clear the background and save a project.