Welcome Teachers....
This resource has been designed to align with the Australian Curriculum with the following strands:
Technologies / Digital Technologies / Years 5 and 6 / Digital Technologies Processes and Production Skills / ACTDIP020
Content Descriptor:
Implement digital solutions as simple visual programs involving branching, iteration (repetition), and user input (ACTDIP020)
Digital Technologies Knowledge and Understanding
Investigate the main components of common digital systems, their basic functions and interactions, and how such digital systems may connect together to form networks to transmit data (ACTDIK014)
Elaborations:
- experimenting with different options that involve repeat instructions, for example a continually repeating slideshow, a repeated movement in an animation, a repeated calculation in a spreadsheet
- Numeracy
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Literacy
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Information and Communication Technology
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Critical and Creative thinking
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Ethical Understanding
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Sustainability
What is Scratch?
With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations with others in the online community.
Scratch helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively — essential skills for life in the 21st century.
Scratch is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. It is provided free of charge. (Scratch, 2015)
The resource has will be created to teach students how to demonstrate there online skills such as: repetition and motion. There is a Explore page which gives mulitple examples.
If you have any further questions please visit the FAQ'S page on the Scratch website