How To Use This Book

This book is meant to be used for teaching computers to children in a way that is mostly fun (as
indicated by the “Masti” in the title). The teacher’s role is primarily that of a facilitator encouraging
active learning. Specific guidelines for each lesson can be found in the Teacher’s Corner of each
lesson. Ensure that the conceptual understanding is mastered before proceeding to the skills. Allow
students to play educational computer games included in each lesson in order to reinforce learning
of the concepts/skills covered in the lesson. In the computer lab, if they are doing activities in groups,
ensure that they switch “drivers” frequently, so that each student gets to do a fair amount of the
computer based activities. The Worksheets include exercises to inculcate higher order thinking skills.
Use the Group Activities and Projects to stimulate creativity and knowledge sharing. The book is
designed so that it can be covered comfortably in one year, with one class (30 to 45 minutes) per
week. See the table below for an overview of the concepts, skills and values covered in each lesson
along with a week wise schedule.

Lesson Skills
Topic Name Concepts Values reinforced Weeks
No.

1. Revision of o Step-wise thinking. o Dividing a task into main o Exchange of 1st - 3rd
Level III o Program execution. and detailed sub tasks. ideas and sharing
o Sequence of o Drag and drop basic of resources.
programming commands of Scratch. o Inculcate the
instructions. o Exercises for wrists, neck importance of
and spine. team work and
o Formatting text. group discussion.

2. Logical o Reasoning. o Identifying goals, o Working 4th - 8th

Thinking o Problem solving. information and conditions systematically.
for problem solving.

3. Programming o Control statements. o Write scripts using o Reinforcing 9th -13th

Multiple o Coordination Scratch controls. creativity and
Sprites in between program o Change parameters in imagination.
Scratch parts. Scratch blocks. o Working
patiently.

4. Dos and o Importance of o Exercises for legs, ankles o Value of 14th -16th
Don’ts - exercises. and foot muscles. traditional
Balancing o Taking care of o Exercises to improve art forms and
Asanas health while using balance. instruments
computers. o Taking care of
oneself.
REVISION 17th -18th
5. More o Animation of o Writing scripts for games o Developing 19th -23rd
Activities concepts in other and stories. secular tolerance
using subjects. and celebrating
Scratch all festivals.

6. Naming and o Storage and o Creating folders and o Arranging things 24th - 28th
Organising organization organizing files within at home and
files of Files and folders. school, in an
Folders. o Identifying type of content orderly way.
o Classification based on file extensions.
of content. o Classification or grouping of
relevant items.

7. Projects 29th - 32nd