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Questions about instruction specific to the programming environment Scratch. Scratch is a programming language for creating games and animations in a graphical interface. Use this tag only when the language used would affect the question significantly (if your question uses Scratch as an example, but does not focus on the language itself, you need not use the tag).

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How to explain the concept of a variable to a 9-year old?

Buffy's lovely answer shows well how two variables can refer to the same thing, but since we are in early cognitive development and working with Scratch, in which you can't pass parameters, and can't arrange … So, to put this into Scratch, we can make a String in scratch called President, and then we can use the set box to set President to "Joe Biden". …
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How important is it that I know all of the words for the technical terms when mentoring in m...

First of all, kudos to you for teaching Scratch to kids! … The others will have to relearn the ideas in the new context from scratch. (No pun intended.) …
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First Time teaching 6th & 7th grade computer science

I have a few thoughts: Scratch is wonderful, and very appropriate to that age group. TinkerCAD is another great alternative. … They have lots of stuff there, and there is certainly material that is appropriately leveled for 7th graders who have already had Scratch experience. …
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