Coding & Tech
Game Design 1 With Scratch Coding - Make Fun Games!
Use Scratch to create 3 fun games and build up your coding skills. Small class size for individual attention. 6 learners max means no one falls behind!
Kari Santos - coding Scratch and Robotics
391 total reviews for this teacher
93 reviews for this class
Completed by 417 learners
7-12
year olds
1-6
learners per class
Charged upfront
Meets 1x per week
Over 4 weeks
55 minutes per class
Available Times
Pacific
Available Times
Pacific
Description
Class Experience
I focus on the elements of the computational thinking framework. Concepts: sequences, loops, parallelism, events, conditionals, operators and data Practices: experimenting, testing and debugging, reusing and remixing and abstracting Perspectives - creating and expressing, connecting with others, questioning.
I have taught Scratch to many students in the past few years, and am astounded by the creativity of my students in their Scratch projects. My master's degree focused on building software and curriculum to make learning to code more engaging for middle school students - particularly girls.
There is no homework assigned, but students are encouraged to work on their projects between classes if they would like, and will have an opportunity to share with the rest of the class.
Please make sure your learner has a Scratch account and can log into it. Do not use a downloaded version of Scratch - use the website. Screen setup is really important in this class. I share my Scratch window on Zoom, and I expect that students can see my Scratch at the same time they work on their own Scratch window. I also ask students to share their screen when they run into difficulties so I can help them debug. This takes a good amount of screen space. Ideally a large screen on one computer (or laptop). Some students use two devices, but then they can't easily share their work with me. I don't recommend using one tablet (iPad) for the class, because the student can't see Zoom and Scratch at the same time (to the best of my knowledge). Also, it helps to have an adult nearby at the beginning of the first class to help set up the student's display correctly. I check in with every student at the beginning of each class and help them set up. But many students don't know how to resize windows.
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
55 minutes per week in class, and maybe some time outside of class.
SCREEN SETUP IS REALLY IMPORTANT IN THIS CLASS!!!! I share my Scratch window on Zoom, and I expect that students can see my Scratch at the same time they work on their own Scratch window. I also ask students to share their screen when they run into difficulties so I can help them debug - which requires one device that can run both Scratch and Zoom. This takes a good amount of screen space. Ideally a large screen on one computer (or laptop). Some students use two devices, but then they can't easily share their work with me. I don't recommend using one tablet (iPad) for the class, because the student can't see Zoom and Scratch at the same time (to the best of my knowledge). Also, it helps to have an adult nearby at the beginning of the first class to help set up the student's display correctly. I check in with every student at the beginning of each class and help them set up. But many students don't know how to resize windows.
Teacher
Kari Santos - coding Scratch and RoboticsSoftware Engineer Who Loves to Empower Kids with Coding Skills
391 total reviews
378 completed classes
About Me
I teach coding classes using Scratch and micro:bit robotics on OutSchool. I truly believe that Scratch is the best coding platform for kids. And micro:bit is by far the best "physical computing" device for learning robotics! I love the excitement...
