Intro to Scratch!

What is the best way to describe what Scratch is?

• It's a graphic design website.

• It is a website, a community, a coding platform and a coding language.

• A video game website.

• A classroom management platform.

Can you save projects in Scratch without signing in to your Scratch Account?

• Yes

• No

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Sprite

,

(b) Scratch

,

(c) Stage

,

(d) Backdrop

• Different ways the stage can look.

• The objects or characters that you code.

• The space where everything happens, where sprites "live"

• The coding language you will use.

Costumes are _____

• Different ways the stage can look.

• Different ways a sprite can look

• Different types of coding blocks.

Put these in the correct category

Groups:

(a) Script

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(b) Event

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(c) Motion

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(d) Looks

• A Type of block that is always at the top of a script. It starts the code.

• A stack of blocks that start with an Event block.

• A type of block that makes a sprite move in some way.

• A type of block that changes what you see - it changes the way a sprite looks.

Put these into the correct category

Groups:

(a) Blocks

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(b) Projects

,

(c) Scripts

,

(d) Sprites

• What we call the things we make in Scratch

• Small programs made blocks snapped together, that begin with an Event block.

• The characters or objects that we code in Scratch.

• Specific commands that we snap together when we code.