Teaching Computational Thinking in an interdisciplinary approach in elementary school history classes
Results from pilots in Elementary Education (5 and 7 grades) at school Autonomia 2015-1:
Class 7B – https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/1192830/
Class 7A – https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/1192828/
Class 5V – https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/1192820/
Class 5M – https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/1192816/
Learning Scratch
Scratch is a new visual programming language and an online community where children can program and share interactive media, such as stories, games and animations with people around the world.
Creating with SCRATCH, children learn to think creatively, work collaboratively, and to solve problems in a systematic way. Today, SCRATCH is a creative learning community present in more than 150 countries with more than 11 million users and more than 3 million of shared projects. SCRATCH is a free software developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab.
Try it: http://scratch.mit.edu
Learn to make the Mouse-Catch Game with this little book [INCoD Technical Reports] or see the game in SCRATCH (http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/14839935/)
More instructional material: SCRATCH Cards
Images to make the Mouse-Catch Game
Other ideas:
Ideas – Ancient Civilizations
- Telling story as journal news (Example: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/3078740/)
- History in the style “day in a house in Rome …” (Example: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/42990076/)
- Interactive graphics timelines (Example: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/13067172/)
- Interactive stories such as “visual novel” (Exemples: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/17860399/ or http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/48047296 or http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/22209640/)
- Games(Examples: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/10151108/ ou http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/28864598/)
- Quiz games (Example: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/22692588/)
- Combining story and game (Example: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/2583213/)
Ideas – Food
- Cooking (Example: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/41566430/ ou http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/22364597/ ou http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/27978586/)
- Bash Games with food (Example: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/24022862/ ou http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/43922742/)
- Mario game with food (Example: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/43922742/ ou http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/21153907/)
- Labyrinths (Example: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/11585634/)
- Other Games (Example: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/10428846/)
