About Scratch
With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations with others in the online community.
Scratch helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively — essential skills for life in the 21st century.
Scratch is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. It is provided free of charge.
Who Uses Scratch?
Scratch is designed especially for ages 8 to 16, but is used by people of all ages. Millions of people are creating Scratch projects in a wide variety of settings, including homes, schools, museums, libraries, and community centers.
Learn to Code, Code to Learn
The ability to code computer programs is an important part of literacy in today’s society. When people learn to code in Scratch, they learn important strategies for solving problems, designing projects, and communicating ideas.
About ScratchJr
What is ScratchJr?
Why Did We Create ScratchJr?
To use Scratch go to Scratch – Getting Started, where you will find tips, things to try and tutorials. To explore other students’ projects, go to Scratch Explore Projects
To use ScratchJr. go to ScratchJr Interface and use the elements on the screen.
Scratch: INFO FOR PARENTS
Also see the Educator Resources tab.
Scratch: INFO FOR EDUCATORS
Teaching Activities in ScratchJr Teaching Activities, Curricula, and Assessments.
There are Scratch activities available in C{ }DE BC.
Scratch: Interactive Holiday Card
With Scratch, kids and teens can program their own interactive games, stories, animations, and more. In this activity, your students will create an interactive holiday card that they can share with their friends and family — while exploring the fundamentals of programming.
To help you bring this activity into the classroom, library, or other learning environments, the ScratchEd Team at the Harvard Graduate School of Education has assembled a few suggestions for what to do before, during, and after the session.
Get started by reviewing the teacher guide below, downloading the
one-page activity handout, or jumping directly into the tutorial.
Get the resources here:
Scratch Holiday Card (.PDF)
Scratch Holiday Card (editable .DOCX)
Scratch Holiday Card (French Version)
- There is a guide to ScratchJr. Written by app creators Professor Marina Umaschi Bers of the DevTech Research Group at Tufts University and Mitchel Resnick of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab, this new book is an easy-to-use, hands-on resource for parents and educators alike to teach children how to code with ScratchJr. Read an excerpt of the book. You can buy your copy through No Starch Press!
- Here is the site for books about using Scratch: Scratch Books Scroll down on the page to find books about Scratch 2.0, Scratch 1.4 and ScratchJr.