$13
weeklyScratch Coding Club for Beginners - Make Video Games - On-Going, Multi-Week
Completed by 112 learners
Ages 7-12
Live Group Class
Live video meetings
1x per week
3-6 learners per class
30 min
What's included
1 live meeting
30 mins in-class hours per weekClass Experience
Do your kids want to learn coding with Scratch? Scratch 3.0 is a great platform to learn coding skills. . Coding is an essential 21st century skill - It helps young people learn to think creatively. In this course, your child will create their own video games. After class, they will have the skills to enhance the games to their likings. Students will learn how to create games and storyboards by using Scratch 3.0. Each week, we would focus on learning new coding knowledge. Week of <Feb 16> Monkey catching bananas Students will create a game where they control a monkey and try to catch falling bananas avoiding falling rocks. <Feb 23>Project: Ghost Hunter Whack the ghost to score points. Based on the game Whack-a-Mole. <Mar 2> Project: Breakout Based on the popular arcade game, Scratches attempt to break all the blocks. Game resumes at a faster pace once all blocks are broken <Mar 9> Project: Dino Dash Students will learn how to make their dinosaur jump and move to avoid the oncoming rocks. <Mar 16> Project: Underwater Adventure Students will learn how to make their sprite follow the mouse through the water and try to collect stars while avoiding the attacking octopus <Mar 23> Project: Counting Picos Try to count the aliens as they ascend to the clouds. Harder than you think. A fun family game. <Mar 30> Project: Snake Create your own Snake game. Snake continues to grow as you eat more food. <Apr 6> Project: Cash Grab Learners try to catch balls of different dollar amounts within 15 seconds <Apr 13> Project: Space Invaders Learners will create a project to shoot down invaders from space. Learners will shoot lasers to save us from the invaders <Apr 20> Project: Asteroid Asteroids are flying at your spaceship at different speeds. Blast them out of the air and you must avoid being hit or game over <Apr 27> Project: Floppy Bird Scratchers will create a game similar to Flappy Bird. . Guide your bird through the obstacles trying to get a better time. <May 4> Project: Pacman Create your own PacMan based game in Scratch, complete with ghosts, food and doughnuts for more lives Students also need a Scratch account before the class is started. Please go to the below link to sign into an account: https://scratch.mit.edu/
Other Details
Parental Guidance
This is an online class, students need a computer with a keyboard to follow steps. If you have a tablet to attend the zoom class, that would be great. Students may use the computer to follow the steps at the same time.
Please create a free account prior to class by going to www.scratch.mit.edu. A free account is necessary to save your projects to the cloud.
External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
Meet the teacher
Teacher expertise and credentials
Bachelor's Degree from Pennsylvania State University
Hi, my name is Dan Hartman. I have many years of experience as an elementary and middle school technology teacher (Pk-8). I have a bachelor's degree from Penn State in Computer Science and over 25years of working in the computer science world. For years I have been bringing the joy of coding into PK-8 classrooms, with my passion for teaching technology and a skill for turning learning into an adventure, I inspire young minds to explore the digital world with creativity and curiosity.
I always try to make my teaching fun; students will see me wearing different hats and wigs to liven things up. I was a kid once, too and I can relate that it can be intimidating trying to warm up to a new teacher. In my classes, we will joke a bit and have a good time. But guess what, you will learn how to code.
Last but not least, I realize that not all students pick up everything as quickly, so I try not to leave anyone hanging. I will often extend class sessions for one or a couple students. We can even zoom in at another time. My approach is that no student should leave without understanding the material.
I look forward to seeing you in my class!
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