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Grades 1–3. With free-to-use Scratch® software and 12 scaffolded, one-hour projects, young learners explore the world of computer programming. Every day they expand their skills through iterative thinking and problem-solving challenges as they build their very own interactive storyboards and games with audio, video, animated characters, and more. The curriculum and materials are reusable.

Product Details
Demystifying Computer Programming
Grades 1–3. Explore the magic of computer programming with Scratch®, a free-to-use software developed by MIT's best brains to encourage young learners to combine creative thinking with logic. With a cutting-edge application and a series of 12 scaffolded, one-hour projects, learners uncover the sensational world of coding. Every day they expand their skills through iterative thinking and problem-solving challenges as they build their very own interactive storyboards and games with audio, video, animated characters, and more. Scratch Camp's reusable coding curriculum demystifies computer programming and gets young learners fired up about creating their own unique projects.

Product Features

• Includes reusable materials and curriculum
• Designed for up to 30 students
• Provides 12 one-hour activities

Curriculum Topics:
1. Introduction to Scratch
2. The Pen and Precise Motion
3. Spirographs
4. Multiple Events and a Multiplayer Game
5. Music and Dancing Sprites
6. Bitmap Graphics
7. Speaking Sprites
8. Costumes and Changing Seasons
9. Vector Graphics
10. Introducing If Statements
11. Asking and Answering
12. Animations

Each Activity Includes:

• Schedule
• Topic background information and vocabulary
• Assessment
• Optional extension activities
• Materials list

Recommended Settings:

• Summer camps
• Classrooms
• Out-of-school time programs

Tech Requirements:

• Scratch® software is compatible with any Internet-connected device, including desktop and laptop computers, Chromebook® computers, and iPad® and Android® tablets
• One device per student is recommended
• Scratch Camp is best when used with a video projector

Professional Development:

• Includes a free half-hour webinar orientation when your purchase totals $500+
• Includes a free 1-hour webinar orientation when your purchase totals $1,000+
• Additional training available for purchase by special request

21st-Century Skills:
Helps students develop a set of widely applicable abilities essential for success in the information age:

• Communication and collaboration
• Creativity and innovation
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Finding humor
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Gathering data through all the senses
• Information, media, and technology literacy
• Initiative and self-direction
• Productivity and accountability
• Social and cross-cultural skills

Standards Alignments:
Common Core State Standards for Mathematics

• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.NBT.A.1: Understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones; e.g., 706 equals 7 hundreds, 0 tens, and 6 ones.
• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.MD.C.5: Recognize angles as geometric shapes that are formed wherever two rays share a common endpoint, and understand concepts of angle measurement.
• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.MD.C.5.A: An angle is measured with reference to a circle with its center at the common endpoint of the rays, by considering the fraction of the circular arc between the points where the two rays intersect the circle. An angle that turns through 1/360 of a circle is called a "one-degree angle" and can be used to measure angles.
• CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.MD.C.5.B: An angle that turns through n one-degree angles is said to have an angle measure of n degrees.

Next Generation Science Standards*

• K-2-ETS1-1: Engineering Design
• 3-ESS2-1: Weather and Climate