Great Educational Tools: Scratch | Project | Kettle_Cup_Animation

As part of my work, I sometimes am looking for ideas that interest students, particularly younger - middle school students.  A few years ago, I experimented with Scratch (developed by MIT) to do this and was able to create this very simple animation.  I call it my Kettle_Cup_Animation.   This was made on a day when it was raining outside and I wanted to have some tea desperately!  But I could not leave this project I made in Scratch before I went to have my (real) cup of tea.  The animations are easy to create.  Younger kids may need a bit of help with understanding what a sprite is and about planning their ideas clearly.   But overall, a great tool to teach some computing basics, particularly "loops".

Here is an applet.
Learn more about this project


Here is a link too. 

Scratch | Project | Kettle_Cup_Animation