Online learning is taking over, but physical interaction is key!
Schools must provide an immersive on-site experience, respecting the body and mental health of students in their learning journey.
*phygital = physical + digital simultaneously
Body.scratch is a method for your pupils/students from 8-16 to bodily engage, play & create games, animations and art.
You might have already heard of or even used Scratch. We give it a lively twist so the mind and body work in synergy, offering a more beneficial cognitive learning experience.
Learners gain valuable technical skills for today and tomorrow while sparking their creative, logic, cooperative and motoric abilities!
Our immersive game makes youngsters dance to learn programming in a fulfilling way.
Together they build games, animations, art to level up their creative, logic and motoric abilities!
We team up with you, to make it possible to :
🙌 Bring your learners to solve problems, develop cognitive abilities and gain social agency
☀️ Enable an Educational Technology that respects the balance of individuals
⭐️ Help your school be even more awesome!
" 85% of the jobs required in 2030 do not exist yet. "
Just like a second spoken or written language, the ability to code is a core skill to learn and prepare for tomorrow. We make the learning curve accessible and more bodily engaging than traditional pedagogic programs. So called "soft skills" such as collaborative and creative abilities are central to our method.
We designed various levels of engagement for 8-16 years old learners to find what suits them best and double down on it!
Easy to plug into your classroom
Launch the app on the smartphone and screen/digiboard
Log in to sync up both devices
Tell your learners they are good to go
Learners are building games, animations and visual art. They are being playfully challenged to solve problems with various degrees of complexity.
See our challenges types here.
Moving helps with creativity as it lights up different parts of the brain. We encourage synchronicity between mind and body, to foster creativity while maintaining a healthy process of using technology.
We believe the ability to collaborate is inevitable to thrive in life. By having complementary roles, bodyscratchers learn to trust each other and take decisions within short time spans.
To understand how programs work by starting with the end result and breaking it down.
To come up with relevant shortcuts to design the body.code with design patterns and smartly utilize your energy.
To make creative connections between programming concepts and gestures to find flow in real-time.
To dissect the ins and outs of why a body.code doesn’t work by observing its algorithmic flow.
One flat fee, no hidden surprises.
To make it more accessible to connect coding with movement/dance, we created two free workshops for you, as an educator, to introduce your class to it Body.scratch: the 'introduction' workshop and the 'create moves' workshop.
There are 16 basic moves to discover and practice altogether. From these moves, more moves can be imagined and created.
Here is our PLAY page where you can find the moves and gives background information about them.
We do provide Educator Trainings to favour a long lasting learning experience for every bodyscratcher.
You are a school representative eager to help your children learn programming playfully, healthfully and collaboratively?
We propose to you a 30min call where we listen to you, your challenges and needs.
" Oh my god, my son is smiling! "
Jasmine, parent — Discovery
" Everything was fun, there was just nothing that wasn't fun! "
Noa, 9 — Bootcamp (BSSBC 2021)
" This is epic! They are totally into it! "
Ramona, teacher @De Boschuil — Bootcamp
" If I had learned dancing like this I would have danced more! "
Kees, 18, ICT student @Fontys — Bootcamp
" Oohh..! So, if it is with Python and I do this [move] it's like Body.python now. "
Niklas, 12, pupil — Discovery
We believe it is essential to learn how to interact healthfully, playfully and creatively with technology from an early age.
A central notion in our method is integrating the body in the learning process. Very often, screen-based interactions and curriculums omit to take body memory and motoric development into account, resulting in having deficiency in the learning capabilities of children. Being productive and efficient does not work in the long run with unhealthy habits. Children find joy and meaning in being able to move while learning. And let's be real, we know how cool it is to drop some slick moves with friends!
We base our workshops on Scratch, which is very accessible for children already. This is our current focus. In a near future we will be developing formats for other languages.
Depending on which session and age group, the final outcome may vary. There is a First Time Mode to learn the gameplay basics. You can then access the Play Mode to build animations, games and stories freely. Check out our weekly challenges to always discover new ways fo bodyscratching.
Fantastic! It is much easier to start on a clean sheet with no “bad habits” integrated already. No experience in coding or dancing is required, our tools guide the players every time they need support.
We are an online immersive game provide that teachers can bring into their schools, foundations or other organizations. Our game is online, but the gameplay happens on site, in the classroom!
Yes. Book a free demo via this link and you are good to go.
New events, feature releases, challenges and free educational material! Get the latest Body.scratch news!
