The ScratchJr Coding Cards are a deck of 75 activity cards covering fun and exciting projects designed to educate young children with the visual programming language, ScratchJr.
ScratchJr is a free, introductory computer programming language that runs on iPads, Android tablets, Amazon tablets, and Chromebooks. Derived from Scratch, the wildly popular programming language used by millions of kids worldwide, ScratchJr helps even younger children (5 to 7 years old) create their own playful animations, interactive stories, and dynamic games.
The ScratchJr Coding Cards encourage kids to think creatively and systematically while developing computational thinking skills. Kids will learn powerful ideas about computer science by using ScratchJr programming blocks to make characters move, jump, dance, sing, and more. As they work through the deck, they will become creative thinkers and problem solvers.
Written by the ScratchJr co-creator, Prof. Marina Umaschi Bers, and Dr. Amanda Sullivan, the exercises in ScratchJr Coding Cards will encourage kids to develop coding skills as well as foundational concepts for literacy, math, planning, and problem-solving, all while having fun. The cards are created using the pedagogical approach developed by Prof. Bers to teach coding in a playful way to young children.
Show moreThe ScratchJr Coding Cards are a deck of 75 activity cards covering fun and exciting projects designed to educate young children with the visual programming language, ScratchJr.
ScratchJr is a free, introductory computer programming language that runs on iPads, Android tablets, Amazon tablets, and Chromebooks. Derived from Scratch, the wildly popular programming language used by millions of kids worldwide, ScratchJr helps even younger children (5 to 7 years old) create their own playful animations, interactive stories, and dynamic games.
The ScratchJr Coding Cards encourage kids to think creatively and systematically while developing computational thinking skills. Kids will learn powerful ideas about computer science by using ScratchJr programming blocks to make characters move, jump, dance, sing, and more. As they work through the deck, they will become creative thinkers and problem solvers.
Written by the ScratchJr co-creator, Prof. Marina Umaschi Bers, and Dr. Amanda Sullivan, the exercises in ScratchJr Coding Cards will encourage kids to develop coding skills as well as foundational concepts for literacy, math, planning, and problem-solving, all while having fun. The cards are created using the pedagogical approach developed by Prof. Bers to teach coding in a playful way to young children.
Show moreDr. Marina Umaschi Bers is the co-creator of the widely-popular
programming language, ScratchJr. She is a professor in the
Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development and
adjunct professor in the Computer Science Department at Tufts
University. She also heads the Developmental Technologies (DevTech)
Research group where she studies innovative ways to promote
positive childhood development through new learning technologies.
Additionally, she created KIBO, a robotics platform for children 4
to 7 which allows young learners to learn programming and
engineering skills without screens or keyboards. Dr. Bers is also
the director of the graduate Early Childhood Technology certificate
program at Tufts University. More her approach that conceives
coding as a literacy of the 21st century, can be found in her book
Coding as a Playground- Programming and Computational Thinking in
the Early Childhood Classroom.
Dr. Amanda Sullivan is a post doctoral associate in the
Developmental Technologies (DevTech) research group and associate
director of the graduate Early Childhood Technology certificate
program at Tufts University. Her research focuses on gender issues
and technology.
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