This lesson introduces students to create and use variables in Scratch by keeping score of certain items displayed on the screen.

This 23 page resource spans over the following sections:
- 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