Coding with Scratch the Cat

For the last two weeks, Year 2 & 3 students in our Junior Learning Community have been learning how to design & code their own interactive stories and games in the Scratch Jr Coding app.

The students learnt how to select or draw scenes and characters and then used visual coding blocks to write instructions for the characters.  These instructions enabled the characters to move left, right, up and down; to turn around, hop, grow, shrink, disappear, appear and speak.  By dragging and connecting the coding blocks in the correct sequence, students were able to construct a series of actions for each character and were able to send messages between characters to control the order in which the characters performed their actions.

Coding enables students to acquire knowledge & understanding of digital systems and to practice and learn processes and production skills which are part of the Australian Digital Technologies Curriculum.

Here are some photos of our coders in action and a video of some of the projects.

 

Video : JLC Scratch Jr Projects

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