Scratch Vocabulary

The area where you play a game or run a project. This area is where you see the actions of your coding.

• Stage

• Block

• Sprite

• Costume

This holds all the coding blocks available in Scratch. It can be opened by clicking the Scripts Tab.

• Blocks Palette

• Sprite

• Script

• Costume

The area on the right of the project editor where scripts (programs) are assembled. This area is where you are writing your code.

• Costume

• Backdrop

• Scripts Area

• Stage

A list of all the Sprites (objects) that are part of the program.

• Backdrop

• Stage

• Sprites List

• Costumes

The objects/characters that perform the action in a project.

• Backdrop

• Costume

• Block

• Sprite

A puzzle-pieced shape used to create code. Blocks can be joined with other blocks to create a script.

• Block

• Sprite

• Script

• Stage

A stack of instruction blocks under a header block that are run in order. A similar stack of blocks would be called a program in code.org.

• Script

• Costume

• Backdrop

• Stage

Changes the backgrounds of the Stage.

• Script

• Backdrop

• Blocks Pallette

• Sprites List

These alternate appearances of the Sprite. A Sprite can change its look to any of its costumes. Changing between costumes is often used to create animation.

• Block

• Stage

• Costumes

• Block Pallette