Computing tutorial for UK curriculum primary school teachers: Scratch aquarium
Channel: Lets Learn Computing
Date: 2015-08-28

This tutorial will show you how to teach children to program an aquarium with Scratch. Fish will move around an underwater scene at different speeds.

The main programming concept covered is a repeat loop.

Optional challenge activities are

Create multiple fish
Create a fish which moves around with the mouse
Add bubble sounds
Change the costume of some fish as they swim


Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. See http://scratch.mit.edu

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