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Scratch is a project of the Scratch Foundation, in collaboration with the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. It is available for free at https://scratch.mit.edu.
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Understand how to create a simple script in Scratch.
- Add or change a sprite and prevent it from rotating.
- Use decomposition to identify key features and understand how to decipher actions that make the quiz game work.
- Understand what a variable is and how to use the ‘say’ and ‘ask’ blocks.
- Create a variable and be able to use a variable to record a score.
- Understand what a variable is and how it works within a program.
Suggested prior learning
ARCHIVED Year 3: Programming: Scratch
If your school does not have access to Google, there is also a Microsoft version of this unit.
Pupil video: It's a Scratch rap
Teacher video: Introduction to Scratch
Teacher coding skills videos
Lessons
Lesson 1: Scratch reminder
Lesson 2: Identifying what code does
Lesson 3: Introduction to variables
Lesson 4: Making a variable
Lesson 5: Times tables project
Key skills
- Using decomposition to solve
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Key knowledge
To know:
- That a variable
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Key vocabulary
code block
conditional statement
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Unit resources
Knowledge Organiser – Computing Y4: Further coding with Scratch
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Vocabulary display – Computing Y4: Programming 1: Further coding with Scratch
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Programming 1: Further coding with Scratch unit.
Cross-curricular opportunities
Maths: 2-D grids, coordinates and translations. Multiplication and division facts for the 3, 4 and 8 tables.
English: Spoken Language – speculating, hypothesising, imagining and exploring ideas.
Suggested next steps
ARCHIVED Year 5: Programming 1: Music
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