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Assign students an “all-about-me” project to practice introductory Scratch content and to engage with computational thinking through expressing themselves.

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  • Students can include images, text, music, and ideas that are relevant to them to explore all the different things Scratch has to offer.
  • Note: this is an open ended task and it can be difficult for kids to adapt to a task without a lot of structure.

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  • Incorporate Student Choice
  • Scratch
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