Scratch Programming Introduction - Taster Lesson

This lesson introduces students to programming in Scratch in a fun and creative way. Students are introduced to the Scratch interface as well as key terms. Students experiment with basic instructions and sequences in Scratch and learn to use Motion, Sensing and Look commands. They also learn how IF Statements (Selection) can actually be used. The content covered in this lesson is not just about copying code, instead it is about how coding works and understanding the code which has been written. This is the only way to become an expert in coding. 

Lesson Sections:
- Starter/Bell Work Activity
- I Can Statements
- Keywords
- Main activities
- Plenary/End of Lesson Review
- Homework

As students work through this material they build up their skills in programming. Get ahead with developing your own and your students skills to learn programming. This is an ideal resource to introduce block based programming to young learners before they move onto a text based programming language, such as Python.