Events and Simple Games
Use keys, clicks and touching to control sprites and build your first real games.
Instructor
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
- Events: Things That Happen
- Arrow-Key Controls
- Smooth Movement with Forever and If
- Touching: Collisions
- Scoring Points
- A Timer
- Falling Objects
- Winning and Losing
- 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-
Arrow-Key Controls
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Smooth Movement with Forever and If
Module 2: Touching: Collisions, Scoring Points…
3 lessons-
Touching: Collisions
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Scoring Points
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A Timer
Module 3: Falling Objects, Winning and Losing…
3 lessons-
Falling Objects
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Winning and Losing
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Project: Catch Game