Scratch and Games that Make You Think

A Big Thanks to Coconino & Mohave Counties Technology Integration Specialist Bonnie Feather for all Her Resources and Creations!

Research Articles

Students and Computation CSCL07_peppler.pdf

Creative Coding: Programming for Personal Expression (UCLA) CreativeCoding.pdf

Learning by Design design-v6.pdf

What Videogame Making Can Teach Us About Literacy and Learning: Alternative Pathways into Participatory Culture DiGRA07_games_kafai.pdf

Technological Fluency fluency-v3.pdf

Sowing the Seeds for a More Creative Society (Leading and Learning) Learning-Leading-final.pdf

Scratch-21stCenturySkills.pdf

Programming by Choice:  Urban Youth Learning Programming with Scratch (UCLA & MIT) sigcse-08.pdf

Guides and Projects for Using Scratch

Getting Started with Scratch, Tutorials, Project Cards and Many Scratch Resources from MIT

Scratch Tutorials and Projects from Nebo Elementary Department of Arts - Great! for independent learning

A Basic Pong Game (Bonnie Feathers, Coconino & Mojave TIS) basic_pong_directions.pdf

Projects from Mr. at Nebo Elementary

Scratch Exercise 1.doc

Scratch Exercise 2.doc

Scratch Exercise 3.doc

Scratch Programming Project.doc

ScratchGettingStarted.pdf

ScratchSneakPreview.pdf

Example Scratch Programs (Download Scratch first - you do not need to create an account)

one-sprite-composer.sbone-sprite-composer.sb

Music_Maker_1.0[1].sb

FishChomp.sb

fish.sb

electric_piano.sb

drum1randomsound.sb

dogchasecat.sb

Dance Dance.sb

Cups.sb

There is a well-developed and extensive user community that offers a forum and a place for "programmers" to post their work.  It is exciting to see student projects and their pride in their creations.  See the Projects, Gallery and Forum sections of the site.

Other Great Games

Launchball (from www.sciencemuseum.org.uk) 

Magic Pen