Introduction to Scratch

It is a visual programming language that allows students to create their own interactive stories, games and animations.

• Quizizz

• Kahoot!

• Scratch

• MySQL

This is where the action happens

• Street

• Road

• Sprite

• Stage

This refers to any character or object on the stage

• Robot

• Sprite

• Mighty Mouse

• Troll

This refers to a single instruction

• Command

• Instruction

• Block

• Code

A stack of blocks that tells a sprite what to do.

• Script

• Rules

• Instructions

• Stack-o

​ These enable the students to control the movement of their sprite(or character) around the stage.​

• Motion Blocks

• Sound Blocks

• Sun Block

These are used to define how the sprite and background will look.

• Design Blocks

• Look Blocks

• Stage Block

​ ​ ​ These control the movement of the sprite under certain conditions, which can be done by inserting conditional statements, loops, repeats, and causes.

• Movement Blocks

• Manage Blocks

• Control Blocks

​ ​ These hold procedures for the selected sprite. They are color-coded pink. Before any blocks are created, it is empty, except for a "Make a Block" button.​

• My Blocks Blocks

• Procedure Blocks

• Make a Block

​ These are used to define the triggers when the script should run. All the other blocks will have no meaning till an event block is used to define when a script is to be run.​

• Events Blocks

• Trigger Block

• The Block