Quality Assured
Tooltip
These resources have been reviewed and selected by STEM Learning’s team of education specialists for factual accuracy and relevance to teaching STEM subjects in UK schools.

Scratch Beginners

This unit of six lessons does not assume any prior programming knowledge and covers the following guidelines in the National Curriculum:

  • Design - write and debug programs that accomplish specific goals, including controlling or simulating physical systems; solve problems by decomposing them into smaller parts.
  • Use sequence - selection, and repetition in programs; work with variables and various forms of input and output.
  • Use logical reasoning to explain how some simple algorithms work and to detect and correct errors in algorithms and programs.

It is suitable for students with no experience of programming. Each lesson includes a placemat with different learning activities, such as word-searches and comprehension questions. A teacher presentation file is also included with each lesson, and several example Scratch files are provided (for the offline Scratch editor). An answer book accompanies the teaching materials, providing quick guidance to the teacher. A self-assessment sheet for students, and a teacher mark sheet in Excel are also supplied.

Please note, these resources were designed using Scratch 1.4. All the resources could be adapted for Scratch 3.0.

Show health and safety information

Please be aware that resources have been published on the website in the form that they were originally supplied. This means that procedures reflect general practice and standards applicable at the time resources were produced and cannot be assumed to be acceptable today. Website users are fully responsible for ensuring that any activity, including practical work, which they carry out is in accordance with current regulations related to health and safety and that an appropriate risk assessment has been carried out.

Downloads

Show downloads

Close

Download all files as a .zip209.37 MB
Information on the permitted use of this resource is covered by the Category Three Content section in STEM Learning’s Terms and conditions.
Popular resource
Downloaded 169 times this term
Subject(s)Computing, Algorithmic Thinking
Age7-11, 11-14
Published2010 to 2019
Published by
Collections
Direct URLhttps://www.stem.org.uk/rx34zs
RequirementsScratch offline editor needs to be installed

Actions

Add to favourites list

Share this resource

Lists that tag this content

KS2 Programming and development, POSTED BY