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Events and Simple Games

Use keys, clicks and touching to control sprites and build your first real games.

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  • 9 lessons
  • Certificate of completion
  • Access on any device

Use keys, clicks and touching to control sprites and build your first real games.

A Advanced course for ages 6–8. Every lesson explains one idea in plain words, shows code examples you can copy, ends with a hands-on project and a short quiz that explains each answer. Projects use the free Scratch editor (or ScratchJr on a tablet) and unplugged activities.

What you will learn

  1. Events: Things That Happen
  2. Arrow-Key Controls
  3. Smooth Movement with Forever and If
  4. Touching: Collisions
  5. Scoring Points
  6. A Timer
  7. Falling Objects
  8. Winning and Losing
  9. Project: Catch Game

For parents: lessons take about 15–30 minutes. Children can work on their own, and you can follow their progress from your parent dashboard.

Module 1: Events: Things That Happen, Arrow-Key Controls…

3 lessons
  • Events: Things That Happen
    Preview 15 min
  • Arrow-Key Controls
    20 min 🔒
  • Smooth Movement with Forever and If
    20 min 🔒

Module 2: Touching: Collisions, Scoring Points…

3 lessons
  • Touching: Collisions
    20 min 🔒
  • Scoring Points
    20 min 🔒
  • A Timer
    20 min 🔒

Module 3: Falling Objects, Winning and Losing…

3 lessons
  • Falling Objects
    20 min 🔒
  • Winning and Losing
    20 min 🔒
  • Project: Catch Game
    25 min 🔒