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 arcade-style 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: <Sep 1>Project: Helicopter Pilot Fly your chopper while avoiding the tall buildings, tree and flying birds <Sep 8>Project: Cash Grab Catch the falling $$ <Sep 15>Project: Floppy Bird Make your bird avoid the pipes. Pipes appear at different levels as you play. <Sep 22>Project: Asteroids Protect earth by shooting all the oncoming asteroids. Asteroids of different sizes approach at different speeds <Sep 29>Project: Helicopter Pilot Fly your chopper while avoiding the tall buildings, tree and flying birds <Oct 6>Project: Cash Grab Catch the falling $$ <Oct 13>Project: Floppy Bird Make your bird avoid the pipes. Pipes appear at different levels as you play. <Oct 20>Project: Asteroids Protect earth by shooting all the oncoming asteroids. Asteroids of different sizes approach at different speeds <Oct 27>Project: Helicopter Pilot Fly your chopper while avoiding the tall buildings, tree and flying birds <Nov 3>Project: Cash Grab Catch the falling $$ <Nov 10>Project: Floppy Bird Make your bird avoid the pipes. Pipes appear at different levels as you play. <Nov 17>Project: Counting Picos Aliens randomly ascend to the clouds - can you guess which cloud has the most Picos? <Nov 24> Project: Snake Recreate your own Snake.io type game. You will learn 2 different coding styles <Dec 1>Project: When Pigs Fly This isn't your ordinary shooting game - you're hunting FLYING PIGS. You have a limited supply of ammo to shoot as many pigs as you can. <Dec 8>Project: Math Blaster In this class, learners will create a game that gives random math problems. Answer them correctly in time Students also need a Scratch account before the class is started. Please go to the below link to sign in to an account: Note: All my classes are 'project based'. Length of class may vary based on a number of factors including learner knowledge of Scratch, questions from learners, number of learners
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.
Language of Instruction
English
External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
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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Live Group Class
$15
weekly1x per week
30 min
Completed by 50 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 8-13
3-6 learners per class