A Guide to Africa and South America, Coded by Year 4.

A block code string for the main character of the guide - Scratch the Cat.

First we started by building a block code to get scratch to walk around a red carpet.

The eager students in Mrs Hoad's and Mrs Carmody's class learned to build algorithms with block code using Scratch Jr app on the iPads. First they were challenged to make a code for Scratch the Cat to walk around a big circle shaped carpet and passed with flying colours! Then they used their atlas skills to look up maps of the world, South America and Africa and take photos of them to make backgrounds in Scratch Jr. Finally, they learned how to create a code that allowed user input by touch to build a guide of these continents using their research of them. Congratulations on starting your coding journey Year 4's!

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