Introduction to Scratch - Barclays Code Playground

Key Stage: Key Stage 2 Coding Language: Scratch  Resource type: Lesson plan

Resource overview

The purpose of this activity is to introduce Scratch for the first time to your class and to introduce some key computing vocabulary.

Lesson plan (PDF - 361KB)  

  • Key resource information

     

  • Teaching assessment opportunities

    • Have the children try out each other’s projects and give each other feedback.
    • Is there anything they would do differently, anything they could add or improve?

  • Lesson length

    • 45 minutes

     

  • Pupil objectives

    • "I can set up a new scratch project and use the correct vocabulary to describe my project. I can explore the Scratch tools to animate my sprite”

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