Session 1: Let’s start the project

Working plan

  • What’s the Scratch?
  • Le’ts discover the web page of Scratch
  • Let’s create a username to start working
  • Let’s introduce the project

What’s the Scratch?

The Scratch is a programming environment that let us create lots of diferent activities, such as games and interactive stories…

When we click on web page of Scratch we will find a screen like this one:

Pàgina inicial de l'Scratch

Icona tasquesStep by step:

  • Explore all the opcions of the top blue menu. What are they for?
    • Scratch, it brings us back to the home page
    • Create, it opens the editor to create our projects
    • Explore, we can watch and search for others users’ projects
    • Help, we can see diferent manuals and Scratch Cards

Our space in the Scratch

We will work into groups in order to solve our challenges and make progress in our project. We will save all the activities and work so that we can go on working whenever we want.

All the students will have their own profile and space. You must sign in and save the project.

Icona repteStep by step

  • Click on the option Sign in.
  • Write your username and password.
  • Once logged in, you can click on account settings and upload a picture, explain something about your school…

Configuració compte


What is our project with the Scratch?

It is an interactive postcard. First, we will see what is an interactive postcard and the elements we can use. Then, we will work on the rest of the module to design a postcard with the elements and things we are learning.

Icona tasquesStep by step

  • There are lots of different interactive postards with the Scratch. Let’s have a look: https://scratch.mit.edu/search/projects?q=postal
  • Click on some of them and see what happens:
    • The characters are moving
    • The characters are speaking
    • Things are changing colour and size…
    • The background is changing…

Here ‘s another interactive postcard: