Animation Using Scratch
Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art. Scratch uses a visual system of "Tiles" that contain commands users can connect together to create programs. These programs direct the characters and objects in the game.
Starting Points: Step-by-Step Lessons & Activities
Scratch homepage
Scratch Video Tutorials
Scratch Cards
LearnScratch.org
Projects:
Once you've explored and learned how to use Scratch, try creating your own project or game. You can use examples from these already created projects and games, or create your own.
Starting Points: Step-by-Step Lessons & Activities
Scratch homepage
- Explore projects that other students have created.
Scratch Video Tutorials
- Use the video tutorials to help you become familiar with the Scratch program and the different commands to create your own project.
Scratch Cards
- Use these cards to walk through step-by-step different common steps used in Scratch. Scratch cards provide a quick way to learn new Scratch code. The front of the card shows what you can do; the back shows how to do it.
- Activities Include: Change Color, Move to a Beat, Key Moves, Say Something, Glide, Follow the Mouse, Dance Twist, Interactive Twirl, Animate It, Moving Animation, Surprise Button, Keep Score
LearnScratch.org
- 3 levels of video lessons to learn how to use Scratch.
- Getting Started with Scratch - 8 step-by-step lessons to practice the basics of Scratch.
Projects:
Once you've explored and learned how to use Scratch, try creating your own project or game. You can use examples from these already created projects and games, or create your own.
- Scratch Maze Project
- Nebo Music Scratch Projects
- 37 different projects you can replicate to create your own Scratch project.