Scratch Programming Flashcards
Grade 3 · Technology · Flashcards
Review key Scratch programming vocabulary and concepts with these flashcards.
Flashcards
- Scratch
- A free visual programming language made at MIT for creating games, stories, and animations
- Sprite
- A character or object that you program on the Scratch stage
- Stage
- The background area where a Scratch project runs
- Block
- A puzzle-shaped piece of code that gives instructions to a sprite
- Script
- A stack of connected blocks that tells a sprite what to do
- Sequence
- Running code blocks in order from top to bottom, one at a time
- Loop
- A block that repeats a set of instructions multiple times
- Motion Block
- A blue block that moves a sprite on the stage
- Looks Block
- A purple block that changes how a sprite looks or what it says
- Control Block
- A yellow block that controls when and how often things happen
- Green Flag
- The button clicked to start running a Scratch project
- Red Stop Sign
- The button clicked to stop a running Scratch project
- Costume
- A different look or outfit that a sprite can switch between
- Backdrop
- The image used as the background on the Scratch stage
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