Ashley Beamer

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Learn how to make your own game with the Scratch Mix and Match Cards. Accept the challenge and make a game or story with the cards for this challenge!

See what Pinnguaq is offering for online learning at home for the week of June 22nd to 26th.

Watering your plants evenly throughout is almost impossible so use mother nature as an example and build your own aquifer!

Scratch Mix and Match Cards Challenge #4. Accept the challenge and learn how to make a Choose your own Adventure game or story! Making your own games in Scratch is a fun way to learn how to code!

How to make your own custom map for game development in Scratch using Inkscape.

In this tutorial, you will learn about how conditional statements and a counter variable can be used to create a bouncing arrow animation in Scratch.

Create a basic four-frame walk cycle for a 32×32 character sprite from start to finish, then import that sprite into Scratch. A time-compressed video example of the process helps to illustrate the process.

In this tutorial, we will be learning about the medicinal properties of Tamarack bark tea and how to make Tamarack bark tea, or Mshkiigwaatikohns tea. We will be learning about traditional uses of Tamarack and why it’s known in First Nation communities as “nerve medicine”.

See what Pinnguaq is offering for online learning at home for the week of June 15th to 29th.

In this tutorial Natsiq Hunter, participants will learn to use if/else statements to make a simple click game.

Find the hidden block, and learn how to use it another way to code hidden sprites in Scratch!

See what Pinnguaq is offering for online learning at home for the week of June 8th to 12th.

These unplugged activities are geared towards a younger audience with the intention of introducing basic coding concepts.

In this series, the basics of Scratch will be introduced to provide learners with the foundational skills required to begin creating in Scratch.

In this tutorial, we will be learning about the traditional medicine semaa (tobacco) as it’s used by many First Nation groups and how to grow your own. Traditional tobacco is very different from commercial tobacco and is one of the four sacred medicines.

Gon’ Phising is a game built to provide an opportunity to experience a variety of phishing attempts and become familiar with the signs of a phishing email.

Step by step coding can be a very difficult process to go through, even the tiniest mistake can result in a bug that crashes the game. A great way to display this is through cooking, and what better food than pizza!

Design your own Fantasy map for DIY offline and online gaming.

This unplugged coding activity challenges learners to decode their own puzzles. In this activity, learners will explore the computational methods of pattern recognition and algorithmic thinking.

This tutorial of Pixel Power is a primer on silhouette, form, and colour when making sprites in GraphicsGale.

See what Pinnguaq is offering for online learning at home for the week of June 1st to 5th.