Coding in Scratch for Beginners: 4D An Augmented Reading Experience

by Rachel Grant, Dario Brizuela (Illustrator)

Overview

Get coding with a hands-on introduction to Scratch. Step-by-step instructions will help young coders pick up Scratch. You'll be writing and directing your own programs in no time!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781515794905
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	01/01/2018
Series:	Junior Makers 4D Series
Pages:	48
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.38(d)
Age Range:	8 - 11 Years

About the Author

Rachel Ziter was raised in Las Vegas, Nevada. She earned a Bachelor of Science in education and her teaching credentials from Florida Southern College. She has also completed graduate coursework in computer science education at St. Scholastica, as well as professional development in fablab project-based learning at NuVu. Rachel works at the Adelson Educational Campus in Las Vegas and is a member of the Tech Team. She works in STEM curriculum and instruction, mentoring students across all grades school-wide, with direct teaching responsibility for all lower school (JK-6th) coding and engineering. Rachel was a founding teacher in Dawson College Bound, a regional program mentoring high-performing youth toward high school and college success. During the summer, she teaches coding to children across the valley through Spark Skill. As a former competitive lacrosse player in college, Rachel enjoys coaching club lacrosse and a variety of other sports.

Dario Brizuela works traditionally and digitally in many different illustration styles. His work can be found in a wide range of properties, including Star Wars Tales, DC Super Friends, Transformers, Scooby-Doo! Team-Up, DC Super Hero Girls, and more. Brizuela lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Table of Contents

Getting around in Scratch! — Start it up! — Up, down, all around! — Sports jokes — Frog on a trampoline — Moving campfire — Spooky scene — Simple spinner — Ocean dodge — Code is a-maze-ing — Pizza party — Glossary — Read more — Makerspace tips — Internet sites — Index.

Interviews

A great intro to STEAM, maker spaces, coding, 3D pens, and engineering. Hands-on, accessible projects for beginner maker space users; Online lesson plans help teachers and librarians get the most out of their maker spaces;

Editorial Reviews

04/01/2018
Gr 2–4—Here's a STEM series that takes advantage of new technology and encourages even young children to solder, code, and employ trial and error to achieve results. About 10 projects per volume demonstrate science principles such as pressure, conductivity, friction, and logic. The activities in each book are of uneven difficulty—the flimsy materials used in Building will lead to impressive collapses, and projects in 3D Pen have up to 22 steps. The app content is also inconsistent; the included videos range from demonstrations of steps or finished projects to archival footage to animated diagrams. Scratch is a standout for its color-coded instructions, photos, and screen recordings of each project's entire coding process. Numbered images show what the projects should look like at crucial stages. Overall the series has an uncluttered and cheerful design. VERDICT Above-average STEM activity books; select titles (and projects) carefully.

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