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Helping Students Learn Coding With Scratch Jr. and PBS Kids Scratch JR

This document discusses teaching coding to students using Scratch Jr and PBS Kids Scratch Jr. It provides an overview of the apps, why they are engaging for students, and suggestions for skill-building projects and lessons. Sample student projects are shown to demonstrate how students can explain their code, be creative, and connect coding to their own interests. Additional resources for teaching with Scratch Jr are also referenced.

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197 views

Helping Students Learn Coding With Scratch Jr. and PBS Kids Scratch JR

This document discusses teaching coding to students using Scratch Jr and PBS Kids Scratch Jr. It provides an overview of the apps, why they are engaging for students, and suggestions for skill-building projects and lessons. Sample student projects are shown to demonstrate how students can explain their code, be creative, and connect coding to their own interests. Additional resources for teaching with Scratch Jr are also referenced.

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classroom.shellyfryer.

com
/workshops/scratchjr
29 November 2017

Helping Students Learn


Coding with Scratch Jr.
and PBS Kids Scratch Jr.
By Shelly Fryer @sfryer
www.shellyfryer.com
3rd Grade Teacher
In September 2016 In September to November 2017, I
and September taught an 8 week after-school class for
2017, I taught 2nd - 4th graders on coding with PBS
Saturday Scratch Scratch Jr.
Jr. Workshops for
Kids through The
Div @thedivorg

classroom.shellyfryer.com/workshops/scratchjr
Outline for Today:
1. Why do this?
2. Listen to the Students (explaining
what they built with code and
learned)
3. How: Suggestions for skill
building and projects
Access these slides and
all referenced resources!
classroom.shellyfryer.com/workshops/scratchjr
What are Scratch Jr. and PBS Scratch Jr.?

www.scratchjr.org
What are Scratch Jr. and PBS Scratch Jr.?

pbskids.org/learn/scratchjr/
Why I love teaching students coding with
Scratch Jr...
» Student engagement
» Self-directed creation (not
“mad lib coding”)
» More complexity
» Introduces vocabulary
» Explain what you’ve created
Why I love teaching students coding with
Scratch Jr...
» Starting with zero coding experience:
Laying the foundation with basic
building blocks
» Students are the CREATORS!
safeYouTube.net/w/uypc

www.youtube.com/watch?v=78e-KG_lDRA
● Skill and ease navigating
Did you notice? within the app (resetting
code, using vocabulary)
● Originality and Creativity
● Connections to his own
interests, passions, and
experiences
● Ability to explain his
code and how he copies
code
“Low Bar -
High Ceiling”
h/t Mitch Resnik @mres
safeYouTube.net/w/Wypc

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECkrAfnMP7c
Did you notice? ● Builds “coding a
conversation” skills
● Sending and
receiving messages
● Great language arts
activity: Learning
about beginning,
middle & end of a
story
“Integrating
coding across the
curriculum”
safeYouTube.net/w/rzpc

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwArKbWDDs
U
Did you notice? ● Movement, multiple
backgrounds,
conversation
● Story has beginning,
middle and an end
● How she went
beyond the basic
lesson
● “Hard fun”
Asking students to “read
their code” and explain their
thinking is essential!
How: Skill Building & Projects

sites.google.com/site/divjrscratch/home/september-2017
Check out
“How To”
on the
startup
screen
The
“Blocks
Guide”
explains
different
types of
blocks
Motion
Blocks
Looks
Blocks
Sound
Blocks
Control
Blocks
End
Blocks
Build
vocabulary:
characters,
stage, green
flag, pages,
blocks, etc. www.scratchjr.org/learn/interface
Tap the
“light
bulb” for
Story
Starters
Recommended Skill
Progression and
Project Sequence
sites.google.com/site/divjrscratch/home/september-2017
sites.google.com/site/divjrscratch/home/september-2017
sites.google.com/site/divjrscratch/home/september-2017
sites.google.com/site/divjrscratch/home/september-2017
Provide time for
students to explore
and create in the
Scratch Jr. “Paint
Editor”

www.scratchjr.org/learn/paint
sites.google.com/site/divjrscratch/home/september-2017
safeYouTube.net/w/s0pc

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXAA9AZtcK0
● How he read his code like
reading a paragraph
● How proud he was of the
Did you notice? complexity of his code
● This project took time!
● His coding skills translate
to other apps
Lots of Additional Resources!
www.scratchjr.org/teach/activities
Lots of Additional Resources!
pbskids.org/learn/scratchjr/
You can do
this!
Your
students
will help &
will LOVE
coding with
classroom.shellyfryer.com
/workshops/scratchjr
29 November 2017

Helping Students Learn


Coding with Scratch Jr.
and PBS Kids Scratch Jr.
By Shelly Fryer @sfryer
www.shellyfryer.com

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