MY SCRATCH DEMONSTRATIONRita Coulon

STORY TELLINGThis lesson could be used to:Practice writing skills or to summarize learning objectives and many other ideas too.

MY PROJECT IS DESIGNED TO: Demonstrate Scratch:

Basics Programming tidbits Possible Projects

I Intend to share what I have learned with Content Area Teachers at my school.

SESSION I Introduce Scratch Vocabulary Navigate Scratch Program View Sample Projects Create a simple Scratch file

SESSION II Practice with Scratch and explore all the

possibilities of the new concepts learned Create a simple Scratch project. Share experiences with participants

PRACTICE PROJECT

The first project for teachers is to create their own short story or poem by making the text

switch randomly from pre-typed lines.

SETTING THE STAGE

The Stage needs to be customized to fit the story being told.

Click the backgrounds tab

•Then click Edit

•You may now import a picture to the stage.

•Type your title and tagline.

“Remember this will not change when the program is running”

THE SPRITES Now we must create

5 sprites with 5 costumes

These lines will be used to tell the story later randomly.

SCRIPTS USED Scripts used

Control Menu – When key pressed

Looks Menu Switch to continue

Operators Menu Pick random

Note: The script has to be placed on each sprite for this to work properly.

THANK YOU Once you are finished simply press the space

bar to see your story in action.

Don’t forget to save often

Thank you for learning something new…

SCRATCH RESOURCES http://scratched.media.mit.edu/ http://learnscratch.org/ http://scratch.redware.com/lessonplan