SCRATCH PROGRAMMING - ALL CLASSES

Admin February 26, 2015

ACADEMIC/LEARNING OBJECTIVE
(SEE SPECIFIC PROJECT OBJECTIVES BELOW)
Students (TEMPLE) will give MyBio Presentations to class for credit.  

Students (ALL CLASSES) will advance their knowledge of computer programming experiences by completing a short, digital animation project online and sharing it with fellow classmates.


STUDENTS WILL ENTER THE CLASS QUIETLY AND BEGIN WORKING!
STUDENTS MUST START BY READING ALL DIRECTIONS ON CLASS WEBSITE!
Students (TEMPLE) will finish creating and sharing the 10-slide presentations about themselves in Google Drive.  They will then give the presentations in class to their peers.  

Students (ALL CLASSES) will follow online instructions to complete a digital animation programming project in SCRATCH.  Peer mentoring and other supports will ensure that all students have access to information and programming tools.


ALL STUDENTS:

WE WILL WATCH THE FOLLOWING VIDEO TOGETHER IN CLASS:


Please direct your computers to the following website:

http://scratch.mit.edu/

Today, using the tools provided online, you will learn to program an animated cartoon.  You must create an account (USE YOUR CROSSROADS EMAIL ADDRESS) on the website above.  Once created, go to the "Try It Out" link and work through each learning level listed.  You will learn to create a digital animation sequence.  The programming is actually writing "JAVA-Script", but you are creating it with BLOCKLEY Visual Programming Language.  You will work to create the following:

ONCE YOU HAVE CREATED AN ACCOUNT,  CLICK THE "HELP" LINK AND THEN USE THE "STEP BY STEP INTRO" TO LEARN HOW TO USE THE SITE TO CREATE DIGITAL ANIMATIONS.

Today's Objectives:
  1. Students will be able to state what Scratch is
  2. Students will be able to identify main parts of Scratch
  3. Students will be able to put together a short Scratch animation

Activity:
Create a Scratch animated clip at least 20 seconds long.  
The clip needs to include
  1. At least 2 Sprites
  2. A creative background
  3. When clicked start
  4. Motion
  5. Sounds
  6. Loops

When Complete:
You must "share" the link to your animation by emailing the link to Mr. S for credit AND posting it to the COMMENT section of the Google+ Community Page (Crossroads 2014-2015).

Relax and enjoy this project.  You will have today and tomorrow to work on it.

- Mr. S

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