To reinforce what has been learned about the computer science concept of variables through exposure in previous programming exercises, students in grades 5 and 6 are creating their own Mad Libs program in Scratch, using variables to hold the nouns, verbs and adjectives. Here is a simple prgram I wrote, if you would like to see an example:
Once the use of variables is mastered, the program can be updated to use lists instead. Here is an example of how this can be done:
My you have a happy time coding!