Coding & Programming in Scratch: Create a Game from Scratch
What you'll learn
- Build a Maze Game using block coding in Scratch
- Understand how Scratch can be integrated across other school subjects
- Understand logic and how to problem solve
- Understand how mathematics can be integrated into teaching coding
Requirements
- You should be able to use a computer effectively
- You will need access to the internet
Description
Scratch is a wonderful resource that can build many skills for young learners. Scratch gives students the opportunity to understand how to code using block coding. The process of building a game in Scratch can cross many different areas of the curriculum. Links to Maths, Art, Literacy and Design during this course are referenced. Building a game also requires a higher level of thinking. Students need to be able to problem solve. Students will make mistakes and learn from their mistakes by debugging their coding project. The sense of achievement from Scratch is unparalleled with any other type of learning activity.
This course gives the teacher the opportunity to learn how to implement Scratch in the classroom. The teacher can follow these lectures and recreate them in the classroom linking them to other areas of the curriculum.
This course can also be used for anyone that would like to build a game in scratch and understand some of the basic techniques in doing so.
Who this course is for:
- Educators who want to learn more about coding in the classroom
- Anyone who wants to learn how to create a game in Scratch
Course content
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Instructor
![Richard Poth](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.2 Instructor Rating
- 3 Reviews
- 42 Students
- 1 Course
My educational background goes back to 2005 where I have worked in the UK as a primary school teacher, ICT Co-ordinator and six years in International school supporting the integration of technology in the classroom. As a passionate educator and Edtech Specialist, I founded AtTech Edu with the aim to provide video training courses for teachers, students and parents, supporting them with technology in learning. I am now back in the UK and have expanded AtTech Edu to provide Coaching, Consultancy and Advise for UK schools as well as Europe and beyond.
AtTech Edu prides itself in offering quality technology support to education by working with schools, teachers, administrators, students and parents. It's aim is:
to support schools with implementing new technologies
to support administrators with productivity & media marketing
to guide teachers with the integration of technology
to guide students to become effective digital citizens
to reassure parents with technology learning practices
With these aims AtTech Edu strives to build relationships that will ensure the eduction of 21st Century Learners.