Resources

Instructions and template for making a paper flashlight with an LED and coin cell battery.

This lesson helps youth go a little deeper with their coding by adding movement, speech, and sounds to their Scratch Code. They bring these skills together to tell a story about their community.

This is a light introduction for youth new to Scratch coding. They will learn the basics including how to add and change sprites.

This guide focuses on tips for building positive, trusting relationships with youth.

Experience the design process through hands-on projects. This introductory activity in which students create a tinfoil boat to hold the most pennies is perfect for upper elementary and middle school students.

This handout introduces the basic skills and mindset needed to work with youth.

This lesson introduces youth to the idea of pixels and they learn how to create their own pixel art!

In this course, youth will have the opportunity to explore circuits and their applications through hands-on projects.

Engage in hands-on design projects. Upper elementary and middle schoolers can create spaghetti towers with marshmallow tops in this introductory activity.

Youth will explore logos and symbols to create their own design for an imaginary toy company.

In this activity, youth will act as oceanographers as they work to retrieve a "sensor" from the bottom of the ocean using paper clips.

In this activity, youth will learn about sea jellies and then use LEDs and coin cell batteries to create a bioluminescent sea jelly.

This lesson is a basic introduction to hand sewing and builds the foundation for more complex projects including e-textiles.

This course introduces youth to the basic idea of game design as they explore existing games and then they are introduced to Scratch, a block based coding platform.