Course Content
Welcome to Scratch
Students get oriented with the Scratch platform, understand what programming is, and set up their free Scratch account ready for the rest of the course.
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What Is Programming and Why Scratch?
02:43
How To Create Your Free Scratch Account?
A Tour of the Scratch Interface
02:32
Sprites, Backdrops, and the Stage
Your First Scratch Program — Make the Cat Move!
03:11
Quiz: Welcome to Scratch
00:10:00
Motion and Looks
Students learn to move sprites around the Stage using Motion blocks, and change how sprites look using Looks blocks — including costumes, speech bubbles, and size changes.
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Moving with Motion Blocks
03:17
Turning and Pointing
Changing Costumes
02:24
Speech Bubbles and Thinking Bubbles
Size, Show, Hide, and Effects
Mini-Project: Animated Greeting Card
Quiz: Motion and Looks
00:10:00
Loops and Sequences
Students learn to repeat actions efficiently using loop blocks (forever, repeat, repeat until) and understand how the order of blocks in a sequence changes the program's behaviour.
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What Is a Sequence?
01:22
The Forever Loop
The Repeat Loop
The Wait Block and Timing
Nesting Loops (Loops Inside Loops)
Mini-Project: Looping Animation Scene
Quiz: Loops and Sequences
00:10:00
Conditionals and User Input
Students learn to make programs that react and make decisions using if/else blocks, key-press detection, and mouse input — the foundation of interactive games and apps.
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Making Decisions with If Blocks
If/Else — Two Paths
Detecting Key Presses
Mouse Input — Click and Follow
Touching Color and Sprite Collision
Asking the User a Question
Quiz: Conditionals and User Input
00:10:00
Build a Keyboard-Controlled Maze Game
Variables and Operators
Students learn to store and manipulate data using variables, and combine values with math and logic operators — the tools needed to build scoreboards, timers, and smarter programs.
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What Is a Variable?
Building a Score Counter
Building a Countdown Timer
Math Operators (+, −, ×, ÷)
Comparison and Logic Operators
Mini-Project: Catch the Falling Stars (Score + Timer)
Quiz: Variables and Operators
00:10:00
Events and Messages
Students learn how Scratch programs react to events (flag click, key press, sprite click) and how sprites communicate with each other using broadcast messages.
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Understanding Events
Click Events on Sprites
Broadcast — Sending Messages
Broadcast and Wait
Switching Scenes with Backdrops and Broadcasts
Mini-Project: Multi-Scene Story
Quiz: Events and Messages
00:10:00
Sound and Music
Students add sound effects and music to their projects using Scratch's Sound editor and blocks, making their games and animations more engaging and polished.
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Adding Sounds to Your Project
Play Sound Blocks
Volume and Stop Sound
Adding Background Music
Sound Effects for Game Actions
Using the Sound Editor
Quiz: Sound and Music
00:10:00
Build a Complete Mini-Game with Score, Timer, and Sound
Lists and Clones
Students learn to store multiple values in lists, and to create multiple copies of a sprite using clones — two powerful tools for building more complex and dynamic projects.
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What Is a List?
Practical List Uses — Quiz Questions and High Scores
Introduction to Clones
Falling Objects with Clones
Clones Detecting the Player
Mini-Project: Trivia Quiz with Lists
Quiz: Lists and Clones
00:10:00
Final Project and Course Wrap-Up
Students apply every skill learned in the course to build and present a complete Scratch game or interactive project — their portfolio showpiece. The topic closes with a review of key concepts and guidance for continuing to grow as a programmer.
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Reviewing What You’ve Learned
Planning Your Final Project
Debugging Your Project
Where to Go Next — Beyond Scratch
Quiz: Course Review
00:10:00
Final Project: Complete Scratch Game or Interactive Project
Programming with Scratch: Build Games & Animations from Zero (Copy 1)

Where to Go Next — Beyond Scratch

Congratulations on completing this course! Here’s how to keep growing:

Stay on Scratch

  • Explore other creators’ projects on scratch.mit.edu and look at their code.
  • Join Scratch studios and remix projects.
  • Try the Scratch extension blocks (music, pen, video sensing, translate).

Move to Text-Based Coding

  • Python: The most beginner-friendly text language — great for games, data, and AI.
  • JavaScript: Makes websites interactive — run in any browser.
  • MIT App Inventor: Like Scratch, but for building real Android phone apps.

Every concept you learned in Scratch — loops, variables, conditions, events — exists in every programming language. You already know how to think like a programmer. 🎉

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