Scratch for Educators

Day 2: Message Passing

Welcome to day two of our Scratch class! Today we will learn about two very important concepts in Scratch programming:

1. event-driven programming
2. message passing

After talking about these important ideas, we will work on our 2nd project, Name Dance. In addition to message passing between sprites to control action, we can use this project to explore several of the effects available through blocks in the Looks palette and introduce graphics features in Scratch.

Activities:

1. Create your second Scratch project: Name Dance.
2. Brainstorm activities for the next week that would be most useful in your class settings.