Skip to main content
CS Teaching Tips

Main navigation

  • Browse All Tips
  • Tags
  • 3D
  • About
  • Rate Tips
  • Tip Sheets

Introduce the playnote block in Scratch by having students experiment with different arguments for the block and creating melodies.

Share Introduce the playnote block in Scratch by having students experiment with different arguments for the block and creating melodies. with FacebookShare Introduce the playnote block in Scratch by having students experiment with different arguments for the block and creating melodies. with Twitter
  • Students can increment variables and play around with repeat blocks to build intuition about how playnote works.
  • Music tends to engage a wide variety of students, so it’s likely more students will be interested in this activity.

More about this tip

Tags

  • Scratch
  • Interdisciplinary Connections to CS
External Source
Stephen Lewis from the CSNYC Tip-A-Thon.
Other Tips By
Other Tips By Stephen Lewis

Similar tips

Establish a gallery of current and past projects to motivate students and to build community as students get to show off their work.
Create a handout that translates code in Scratch to code in Logo in order to show students that they are capable of writing text-based code because they already program in Scratch.
Have students create a reset script and it store in their Scratch backpack so they can use in the future to set the Stage back to a uniform starting point.

For more information or to report a bug, contact us at admin@csteachingtips.org. Built with Bootstrap. Powered by Drupal.

Privacy Policy