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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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CHAPTER 1GETTING STARTED

Welcome to ScratchJr! The projects that you can make with ScratchJr are limited only by your imagination. If you can dream it, you can make it.

This chapter will teach you the basics of using ScratchJr, and together we’ll make a dance party! You’ll learn how to make characters move and speak, how to change the background, and how to save your work so you can build on it again or share it with your friends. You’ll also learn how to delete objects and undo steps.

After finishing this chapter, you’ll know your way around the ScratchJr interface, and you’ll know how to use the programming blocks to bring your characters to ...