With ScratchJr, young children (ages 5-7) learn important new skills as they program their own interactive stories and games.
By snapping together graphical programming blocks, children can make characters move, jump, dance, and sing. In the process, children learn to solve problems, design projects, and express themselves creatively on the computer. They also use math and language in a meaningful and motivating context, supporting the development of early-childhood numeracy and literacy. With ScratchJr, children don’t just learn to code, they code to learn.
ScratchJr was inspired by the popular Scratch programming language (http://scratch.mit.edu), used by millions of people (ages 8 and up) around the world. The ScratchJr interface and programming language were redesigned to make them appropriate for younger children’s cognitive, personal, social, and emotional development.
ScratchJr is a collaboration between the Lifelong Kindergarten research group at the MIT Media Lab, the Developmental Technologies research group at Tufts University, and the Playful Invention Company. The ScratchJr project has received generous financial support from the National Science Foundation (NSF DRL-1118664), Scratch Foundation, LEGO Foundation, and British Telecommunications.
If you enjoy using this free app, please consider making a donation to the Scratch Foundation (www.scratchfoundation.org), a nonprofit organization that provides ongoing support for ScratchJr. We appreciate donations of all sizes, large and small.
Hello scratch Jr, why did you remove the voice recording block and could you please add it again I would really like to record my own sounds and can you put an import audio block.
Hello, Scratch Foundation.
Jakes Chu
This was a good coding game, better than tynker, but please update more and remove slide limits, and please add some of scratch cat's friends. Example: Gobo They only exist at scratch, pls add them all in scratch jr. (The scratch cat's friends)And remove text limits, and make more coding blocks. Thank you!
Slides
Kody Marcus
Its a great education game but it can only hold 4 slides, plz increase the slides limit or if you can remove it, better, plz do this I am so close to deleting it and its getting annoying.
Where’s the one I find in computers?
Sidney Lacerna
Basically, I’m trying to find the scratch that I see in computers. The other apps don’t have my preferred language, which is english. Please make one for Ipad, IOS and Mobile.I don’t regret posting this review.
Bug Fixes
Version 1.5.11
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Information
Provider
Scratch Foundation, Inc.
Size
53.5 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 11.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
