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The Official ScratchJr Book

by Marina Umaschi Bers, Mitchel Resnick

October 2015

Intermediate to advanced

160 pages

2h 41m

English

No Starch Press

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What Is ScratchJr?Why Did We Create ScratchJr?Who Is This Book For?What Do You Need?What’s in This Book?How Should You Use This Book?
Activity 1: Throw a Dance Party!Step 1: Open the AppStep 2: Make a New ProjectStep 3: Make the Cat Move!Step 4: Use the Green FlagStep 5: Add a BackgroundStep 6: Add Another CharacterStep 7: Don’t Just Dance, Say Something!Step 8: Add a TitleStep 9: Name Your ProjectStep 10: Save Your ProjectHintsTips for Grown-upsDon’t Be Afraid to Explore!Undoing and RedoingDeleting ObjectsDeleting BlocksA Guided Tour of the ScratchJr InterfaceWhat’s Next?
Activity 2: Make Your Cat Move!What You’ll LearnHow to Make ItHintsLooking for a Challenge?Making ConnectionsLiteracy Connection: Spelling a NameMath Connection: Seeing How Many Ways You Can Get to 10Tips for Grown-upsActivity 3: Make Your Cat Turn!What You’ll LearnHow to Make ItHintsLooking for a Challenge?Making ConnectionsLiteracy Connection: Describing FeelingsMath Connection: Telling TimeTips for Grown-upsActivity 4: Let’s Play Hide-and-Seek!What You’ll LearnHow to Make ItHintsLooking for a Challenge?Making ConnectionsLiteracy Connection: Telling a StoryMath Connection: Observing and CountingTips for Grown-upsActivity 5: Do Something Over and Over!What You’ll LearnHow to Make ItHintsLooking for a Challenge?Making ConnectionsLiteracy Connection: Comparing Your Scripts to SentencesTips for Grown-UpsMath Connection: Comparing Two ScriptsTips for Grown-upsProject Time! Old MacDonald’s FarmHow to Make ItHintsLooking for a Challenge?Making ConnectionsLiteracy Connection: Building New VocabularyMath Connection: Counting the Blocks You’ve UsedTips for Grown-ups

Activity 6: Find Your Voice!What You’ll LearnHow to Make ItHintsLooking for a Challenge?Making ConnectionsLiteracy Connection: PresentingMath Connection: Adding and SubtractingTips for Grown-upsActivity 7: Turn the Page!What You’ll LearnHow to Make ItHintsLooking for a Challenge?Making ConnectionsLiteracy Connection: Telling Your Own StoriesMath Connection: Sequencing Your StoryTips for Grown-upsActivity 8: Change the Pace!What You’ll LearnHow to Make ItHintsLooking for a Challenge?Making ConnectionsLiteracy Connection: Creating AnnouncementsMath Connection: Timing the RaceTips for Grown-upsActivity 9: Stop and Look!What You’ll LearnHow to Make ItLooking for a Challenge?Making ConnectionsLiteracy Connection: Adding NarrationMath Connection: Changing the Wait TimeTips for Grown-upsActivity 10: Wait Your Turn!What You’ll LearnHow to Make ItHintsLooking for a Challenge?Making ConnectionsLiteracy Connection: Using Full SentencesMath Connection: Counting the Wait TimeTips for Grown-upsActivity 11: Build a Snowman!What You’ll LearnHow to Make ItHintsLooking for a Challenge?Making ConnectionsLiteracy Connection: Asking QuestionsMath Connection: Counting the CirclesTips for Grown-upsProject Time! The Tortoise and the HareHow to Make ItHintsLooking for a Challenge?Making ConnectionsLiteracy Connection: Creating a Digital BookMath Connection: Making Characters MoveTips for Grown-ups
Activity 12: Pick a Peach!What You’ll LearnHow to Make ItHintsLooking for a Challenge?Making ConnectionsLiteracy Connection: Adding to the StoryMath Connection: Composing and Comparing ShapesTips for Grown-upsActivity 13: Blast Off!What You’ll LearnHow to Make ItHintsLooking for a Challenge?Making ConnectionsLiteracy Connection: Getting Ready for TakeoffMath Connection: Counting BackwardTips for Grown-upsActivity 14: Play Tag!What You’ll LearnHow to Make ItHintsLooking for a Challenge?Making ConnectionsLiteracy Connection: Creating a Conversation Between FriendsMath Connection: EstimatingTips for Grown-upsActivity 15: Guess the Odd One Out!What You’ll LearnHow to Make ItLooking for a Challenge?Making ConnectionsLiteracy Connection: Writing the Game DirectionsMath Connection: Writing Your Own Math ProblemsTips for Grown-upsProject Time! Cats Versus BirdsHow to Make ItHintsLooking for a Challenge?Making ConnectionsLiteracy Connection: Turning Your Game into a StoryMath Connection: Keeping a TallyTips for Grown-ups
The Scratch CommunityGetting Started with ScratchThe ScratchEd Website
Block ReferencePaint Editor Reference
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APPENDIX ATRANSITIONING FROM SCRATCHJR TO SCRATCH

When you’re ready to take the next step in your programming journey, we recommend trying out Scratch, a programming tool designed for slightly older learners (ages 8 and up). Scratch offers additional features that enable children to create more advanced stories, games, and animations, but its basic programming approach is similar to ScratchJr, so it will feel familiar.

You will know that children are ready to move on to Scratch when they can tell a story or make a game independently with ScratchJr or when they are ready to start creating more advanced projects.

For example, children can use Scratch to do the following:

• Create games that keep score

• Import images and sounds

• Make characters ...