Making Interactive Animations with Scratch!
July 28-August 1, 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Day 1:
What is Scratch?
Read “Programming: The New Literacy” article and discuss
Download Scratch
Scratch Basics
- Scratch Support Page
- Getting Started with Scratch
Project Ideas for Students
Questions and Play Time
Talk about class assignment
Homework: Decide what you want your project to be.
Day 2:
Intermediate Scratch Lesson
- costumes
- stage and backgrounds
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broadcasts / message-passing
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Control Structures
Start projects, work time
Create Accounts on Scratch Website
Upload project to Scratch Website
Day 3:
Joe Mills- Using Scratch in the Classroom
- suggestions for how to introduce to students
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getting classroom teachers interested/involved
- scheduling a Scratch project
Work Time
Day 4:
Work Time
Day 5:
Some additional Scratch tech topics:
- Variables
- Numbers, calculations and comparisons
- Pen and Stamp
- Different ways of savng/communicating your programs
Finalizing Projects
Presenting Projects
Pick one of your projects — pick on any basis you like! (Most complete, most ambitious, the one you would most like feedback on, etc..) Then:
- Explain what you had in mind for it to do
- Run it for the group in presentation mode
- Show the sprites and scripts, discuss how it was built and what factors you ran into