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Scratch, Literacy, and World Languages

Scratch Monthly Meet-Ups

12/16/2021

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Our Goal

Bring together teachers in Maryland who are currently using or plan to use Scratch with their students in order to form a collaborative community and learn from each other.

https://cs4md.com/scratch

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Introduce Yourself

Name

District

Grade(s) you teach

Winter break plans?

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Scratch questions? Personal examples that you are proud of? Challenges?

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Scratch TIPP (and SEE) of the Month

Title

Instructions

Purpose

Play

Adapted from Scratch Encore

What is the title of the project?

What do the instructions tell you?

What is the purpose of this project?

Run the project to see what it does!

Try out TIPP with a vocabulary project: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/616287611

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Scratch TIPP (and SEE) of the Month

Adapted from Scratch Encore

Sprites

Events

Explore

Click on the sprite that you want to learn from

Look at the event blocks for each script

Change the scripts and see what happens!

Try out SEE with a vocabulary project: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/325985386/

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Exploring Scratch Tools

What are some Scratch tools/features that are useful for developing students’ literacy and language skills?

  • Language tool (globe icon in the top-left corner of the screen) that changes the language of the entire website.
  • Translation and recording blocks that can be accessed through the green add-on button.
  • Speech blocks to practice writing/typing words.

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Choose a country that speaks a language that you know or want to know more about

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Vocabulary Quiz Project

  • Create a vocabulary project similar to the one from the TIPP/SEE activity that incorporates four words from the language that you chose
  • Modify the project to share a little about the country/countries that speak that language
  • Consider: How can you adapt this lesson to incorporate other literacy skills?

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Reflect!

What did you do today?

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What are you interested in learning more about in Scratch?

(Planning for 2022)

https://padlet.com/kkramarc/nst5yi6estllx8bi

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Learning Stream

Attendee Login Portal | Create an Account | Register for a Workshop

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Visit: https://umbc.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8v8h9gkv6VhlMRU

Please tell us about your experiences by completing this anonymous workshop post survey:

NOTE: This survey is for MCCE workshops only. CSDiscoveries and CSPrinciples workshop surveys are assigned by Code.org

Thank you for participating in the 2021/2022 academic year professional learning!

Why? Because your opinion matters!

We are committed to continually improving our programs. We want our teachers to have the best workshops possible and your feedback helps us build the experience that teachers have in the future!

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Please keep the Maryland CS community connected!

Make sure to join us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and connect with other computer science teachers on Twitter @TeachCode @cs4md for inspiration and great tips on bringing computer science to every school.

maryland.csteachers.org/

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Resources - Math and Scratch

Learning Languages with Scratch - Raspberry Pi Foundation

Scratch Across Every Subject: Literacy - ScratchED

Scratch Cross-Curricular Integration Guide - ScratchED

Hour of Code Vocabulary Quiz - Hour of Code

Scratch Book Read Aloud - Scratch Studio

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Questions?