Space Explorers Coding Course for Kids

Time to get signed up with Scratch!

A friendly reminder to confirm your email address so that when assignments are submitted, we can all see the amazing projects you have made :)

Let's take  a look through the Scratch interface. Remember to play around and don't be afraid to drag, click and play around.

An event, in coding, tells us WHEN code should run. Let's see how they work in Scratch (with a few other examples thrown in too). Be sure to try them out in Scratch before moving on!

Variables are so dang useful! They're little containers that can keep information for. We can use that info whenever we want or even change it! In this video we look at how that happens.

If something is true, then do something. Otherwise do something else. Effectively, that's what a conditional is! For example, if it's true that you're stoked that you're learning so much, then smile :)

Collaboration is an essential part of coding. We need each other to write better code! Here's how we do that in Scratch.

Successful people make it a habit to respond with wonderment and awe. We'll practice that and get all ready for creating some excellent projects!

Let's use the Scratch pen extension to try and reproduce our Hubble birthday image. Please note that the video compression has caused it to seem that many of the stars aren't there... make sure you look at the finished product in the attached project.

Let's finish off our art project and get ready to create your very own!

Start our new project where we get images and use them responsibly.

In this lecture we'll complete our Hubble Space Telescope orbiting project.

What have we learnt so far? A lot! Let's summarise and make sure we're not missing anything out.

Get our brains primed and ready by considering evidence based reasoning.

Our brains are ready to learn! Let's start creating our very own gravity simulator in Scratch.

In this lecture we'll finish our gravity simulator by allowing the user to select which planet's gravity they want to represent.

In this lecture we'll get set up for our platforming game.

In this lecture you'll finish the template for making your own platforming game. Play around and make it your own! See the attached code if it's not working as you'd like it to. See 4-3-3(Time Lapse) resource for how I got to the final product of my platforming game.

Here's how I got to the final example project.

What have we learnt? Well, you tell me!

I am pretty amazed by the ISS. In this lecture we'll introduce the new topic.

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What, exactly, are we doing in this section?

Here's how we'll use a circle map to access our current understanding and knowledge.

Don't worry about silly ideas! No ideas are silly, yet. Don't inhibit your thinking.

We've decided on an idea and are starting some more research. We'll also start some animation for the final project.

And here's the final project! See the attached resources for the code I used and the example project.

Tell someone about what you've done! Show them and hear what they have to say and how it can be even better.

Think back on your learning journey and find an image from unsplash.com that represents it.

Are you up for the challenge? What did you learn?

Here's brief intro to a few other resources on offer for you and your family.