"This program absolutely changed the way I look at teaching coding. No longer is keeping up with technology something out of reach, but instead something tangible that I can do with my class! My students are absolutely loving it, and the more I do the projects with them, the more I learn about Scratch!"
The Racing Game Course
This course will walk you and your students through building a two-player racing game. The Racing Game Course comes with a starter project, 4 lessons, and 1 quest. Each of the lessons contains a step-by-step video tutorial in the form of an animated slideshow. Each lesson focuses on adding a particular feature to the game.
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The Platform Game Course
This course will walk you and your students through building a platform game. The Platform Game Course comes with a starter project, 6 lessons, and 1 quiz. Each of the lessons contains a step-by-step video tutorial in the form of an animated slideshow. Each lesson focuses on adding a particular feature to the game. The lessons are followed by a quiz which is designed to enhance problem solving and get the kids to really think about the skills they have just acquired.
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The Monkey Launcher Course
This course will walk you and your students through building a Monkey Launcher game. It introduces the concept of cloning in Scratch. Like all of our tutorials, the tutorials included in this course were created using animated slideshows with no sound. This unique method of teaching coding enables students to work together and ask questions, while following the step-by-step instructions and building the game! The outcome is a very engaging, hands-on experience!
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The Hogwarts House Quiz
This course will walk you and your students through building a personality quiz. We're going to be building a 'Hogwarts House' quiz, but you'll be able to use the skills you acquire to build any type of personality quiz, from an 'Inside Out' personality quiz to a color association quiz which reveals your true personality!
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The Space Travel Course
This course will walk you and your students through building a space travel game, in which a spacecraft is navigated through mountains. This course focuses on introducing the side-scrolling effect and explaining in detail how to build it in Scratch. As you play a side-scrolling game, you move from the left side of the screen to the right to meet an objective.
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The 'Guess My Number' Course
This course will walk you and your students through building a 'Guess My Number' game. In this game, you have 6 chances to guess a number between 1 and 100. After each guess, the computer tells you whether your number is too high, too low, or exactly right! This course comes with a starter project, 6 lessons, and 2 quests. It introduces the brand new 'Text to Speech' Scratch feature! The 'Mind Reader' quest included in this course even shows kids how to create a magic trick in Scratch!