This lesson introduces students to create basic games in Scratch 3.0. Simple step by step instructions are provided for students to create their first game. Students are questioned in depth to explain how code they have created actually works so they can develop the code further to create different games.

This 20 page resource spans over the following items:
- Starter/Bell Work Activity
- I Can Statements
- Keywords
- Main Activity
- Plenary/End of Lesson Review
- Homework
- Colorful PowerPoint slides (Editable)
- Detailed lesson plan indicating student and teach activities as well as resources to use
- Lesson worksheet (pdf)
- Homework (pdf)
Answer Key (pdf)

As students work through this material they build up their skills in programming. Get ahead with developing your own and your students skills to learn programming. This is an ideal resource for the introduction of Computer Science into the curriculum.

Scratch is a free software which can be accessed from: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tutorial=getStarted