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Explicitly show students how to login to Scratch because not all students have the same level of computer literacy.

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  • Other skills you may need to teach students include:
    • Typing
    • Navigating to websites
    • Saving files
    • The difference between clicking and dragging and just moving the mouse
    • The difference between single clicking and double clicking.

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  • Scratch
  • Intro Programming
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Misconception: Students think that a “repeat 1” block in Scratch will execute the relevant script twice, where the script executes once and then repeats once.
Let students solve problems the long, hard, intuitive way first to motivate the use of more advanced Scratch blocks that can help them solve problems in a shorter, faster, more flexible way.
Keep the Scratch scripting area organized using the clean up button to ensure that there aren’t dangling scripts and to make debugging and understanding scripts easier.
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