Std VI students - Our Little Programmers It is a well - established fact that programming teaches vital problem-solving, creativity, and communication skills. Plus, it can be downright fun for all age groups. The skills children gain during programming can help them feel accomplished, while giving them a head start in our fast-paced digital world. This aspect was very well discovered during the Scratch Programming sessions that we at GIS started last year with our Fifth Graders. As they reached Std VI, they had gained enough confidence to create a complete game in Scratch . The excitement levels are always high in the computer lab and it is even more so this time since they get to create their own games. We started off with a discussion on various aspects of creating a game such as “the task involved in the game”, “objects or characters required”, “scoring”, “how to make scoring difficult”, etc. The students collaborated with their team mates and discussed their ideas on a Google Sheet shared with them. This was followed by the designing phase where in the students designed the backgrounds and created the sprites (characters). During the development stage students learned how to program and correctly sequence the events in the game. In a fun way they learnt how to build the logic , creating variables, using conditional constructs , looping, etc. Not to mention, the debugging phase was most interesting as they got to play games created by other classmates! Their experience with Scratch will definitely help them as we proceed to QBasic and Java programming in higher classes. You may like to view the following video in which Mitch Resnick demonstrates how Scratch programming software from the MIT Media Lab makes coding accessible and appealing to everyone -from elementary-school children to his 83-year-old mom. youtube/watch?v=42_30Rgf6F0#t=29 -Ms. Suminder Kaur
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 05:43:22 +0000
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