New Releases by Natalie Rusk

Now updated for Scratch 3.0, this 75-card deck features interactive programming projects you can make with Scratch, a free-to-use graphical programming language used by millions of kids around the world. The front of each card shows an activity, like Pong, Write an Interactive Story, Create a Virtual Pet, Play Hide and Seek. The back shows how to put code blocks together to make projects come to life! Along the way, kids learn coding concepts like sequencing, conditionals, and variables.

Utilisé par des millions d'enfants dans le monde, Scratch est un environnement de programmation simple et gratuit permettant d'initier les 8-12 ans à l'informatique. D'approche très visuelle, fonctionnant par assemblage de blocs de couleur, il existe en version française, sur Internet ou téléchargeable, pour PC, Mac et Linux. Pour apprendre à coder avec Scratch, ce coffret ludique et pédagogique comprend 85 cartes illustrées ainsi qu'un petit livret d'explications. Chaque carte d'activité propose au recto de réaliser une action simple, et fournit au verso la solution pas à pas. L'enfant sera ainsi amené à créer une foule de projets amusants, comme des animations, des histoires interactives, des jeux et des mélodies. Un coffret à découvrir en classe, en atelier, à la bibliothèque, au musée ou à la maison.

Start Making! is a program developed by the Clubhouse Network to engage young people all over the world in Maker-inspired activities. With this guide, you will discover how to plan and coordinate Start Making! projects in your home, school, library, community center, after-school club, or makerspace. You'll learn strategies for engaging young people in creative thinking, developing individual and team projects, and sharing and reflecting on their creations. Each session includes a list of the supplies you'll need, step-by-step instructions for completing the projects, and prompts for stimulating discussion, curiosity, and confidence. These fun do-it-yourself (and do-it-together) projects teach fundamental STEAM concepts -- science, technology, engineering, art, and math -- while introducing young people to the basics of circuitry, design, coding, crafting, and construction. They'll make paper cards and creations that light up, play music using a MaKey MaKey keyboard and Scratch programming, join together to make paintings with light, design and construct 3D sculptures, build a vibrating art-bot that makes drawings, and sew fabric creations with wearable circuits. Dip into the activities once a week, run them as a week-long summer activity, or go through the guide in any way that works for you. By offering your own Start Making! program, you can inspire young people in your community to develop creative ideas, learn new skills, and share their creations. The Clubhouse Network is a global network of community-based centers led by Boston's Museum of Science in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab.

A collection of ten themed activity card sets that introduces children to computer programming fundamentals using Scratch, a visual programming language developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab.

Escape from Mind Traps. The bestselling author of I Want to Change But I Don't Know How and Instead of Therapy offers a step-by-step approach to self-initiated, self-directed personal change. This book 'maps out' ways for readers to look at themselves objectively and identify the defeating attitudes that are keeping them locked into problem habits, relationships, and situations.

By enabling the reader to look objectively at himself or herself, Mind Traps helps to identify self-defeating attitudes and guide readers to self-understanding and personal growth. Illustrated.