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How to Use Scratch: Imagining your interactive Holiday Card

Snowmen? Spooky Halloween ghosts? The Easter bilby? What images come to mind when you think of Holidays? Get some ideas for your Scratch Holiday Card

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How to Use Scratch: Adding Background Sounds

Record and add your own background sound to your project or choose the sounds from the library like a rattle, a ripple or a pop!

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How to Use Scratch: Creating an interactive Holiday Card Activity

Looking for a simple project to get you started in Scratch? Add characters, animate them, create and share your own interactive Holiday Card.

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How to Use Scratch: Making a Sprite Move

Tell your Sprite where to go - get your Sprite to move in all different directions - left, right, up, down

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How to Use Scratch: Changing the costume of your Sprite

Make your Sprite look its best by learning how to change its costume.

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How to Use Scratch: Adding Background Images

Make your project come alive by adding a backdrop - anything from a stage to a snow scene or, just draw your own.

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How to Use Scratch: Deleting the Cat Sprite

A computer character is called a 'sprite'. Can you delete the cat sprite from your Scratch card?

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How to Use Scratch: Making Sprites interactive

Make your Sprite jump, move, say something or change costume.

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How to Use Scratch: Making a Sprite say something

You don't want a silent Sprite! Get your Sprite to talk by using the 'say' block.

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How to Use Scratch: Changing Colours of objects in Scratch

Make the images and objects in your project change colour when they are clicked!

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How to Use Scratch: Adding a Sprite

So, you have your new project in Scratch - now it's time to add a Sprite!

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How to Use Scratch: Adding sounds to your Scratch project

There are all sorts of sounds you could add to your Scratch project. Give your project that extra 'oomph' by adding sounds.

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How to Use Scratch: Intro to Scratch 2.0

Want to make your own games? Scratch is a programming language, created by MIT, that makes it easy to create interactive art, stories, simulations, and games. Explore your ideas and share your creations online.

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Creating the Bubble Popper game

Bubble Popper is a game that combines computer gaming and sport. Listen to Chad and Joshua as they explain their aim in designing this game. What kind of equipment is needed to play it? Why might it be a good idea to make games that involve physical exertion? Use your imagination and think up your own game that combines ...

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Years 3–4: Using data purposefully

This scope and sequence unit explores how text, numbers, sound and images are transmitted between digital systems. Students explore symbols and images, and learn about the conventions of data representation. They apply their understanding by representing the same data in various ways.

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Teaching and supporting project management in the F-6 classroom

This PDF gives educators an overview of what project management is and ideas on how they can implement project management skills in the F-6 classroom.

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Scratch coder

Build a simple yet engaging game from the ground up, all within the free block coding program Scratch.Scratch is a browser-based open-source game engine free for anyone to use. Scratch uses block coding, meaning you can learn how to code us-ing pre-programmed blocks, rather than typing out long lines of code to create a ...

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Digital systems cards

This PDF and accompanying cards provide suggestions for ways in which students can identify and explain digital systems in their environment. Students determine whether digital systems include inputs, outputs, or both, and whether they feature software, hardware or peripheral devices. The resource includes useful links ...

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Classroom ideas: Micro:bit environmental measurement (visual programming): years 5-6

This tutorial shows ways in which environmental factors such as lighting and temperature can be measured and improved using micro:bits and sensor boards, and programmed using pseudocode and visual programming.

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Understanding digital systems

This PDF provides suggestions for teaching digital systems in the classroom. The resource includes useful links to websites that provide information about digital systems as well as relevant teaching and learning material.