0.5 Scratch Housekeeping

Standards

• • CSTA 1B-AP-15: Seek and incorporate feedback from team members and users to refine a solution that meets user needs.

CSTA

Setup scratch accounts for your students. To do so please:

• • • Register for a Scratch Educator Account; ( It takes a couple of days to process.)

      • • If you already have an non-teaching scratch account linked to your teacher email, please send following details :

        • username, birth, month, year to the scratch team : teacher-accounts@scratch.mit.edu

Setup a scratch classroom. ( credit to Scratch Encore)

• • • • • Log in as a scratch teacher.

        • Go to "My Classes" and create a classroom for each class.

        • Add students to your classroom.

    • Create a classroom studio for today's lesson. eg. "Tinkering Day"

This lesson is not designed for Pair programming, as all students will need to log into their scratch accounts. However students should still be encouraged to work together as they tinker in scratch and view the "Tinkering Day' studio.

Students should not be graded on the quality of their tinkering project. Instead, grade student's ability to add their work to a class studio.

This lesson explores the procedures surrounding the scratch classroom: students Log-in; creating a project; sharing project with teacher; adding project to a class studio.

Part 1: Housekeeping (15 minutes)
Students receive their log-on name and password from their teacher and follow directions on handout.

• • Go to scratch.mit.edu

  • Log in with username and password

  • Click Create

  • Name project

  • Click Share - shares with teacher only

  • Add to studio - shares with classmates

Part 2: Tinkering in scratch (15 minutes)

Teacher shows the scratch interface and drags command blocks from: Motion, Looks, Sounds, Events over to the script area. Show students that:

• • double clicking on a block in the script area, activates it.

  • blocks click together and each command is processed in a sequence from top to bottom.

Goal: Choose an event and any command under: motion / looks/ sound.

Get student facilitators to pass out headphones. Students tinker with the interface, as teacher circulates and helps students who still have login issues.

Part 3: Show classroom studio of student creations (15 minutes)

• • Go to class studio. Show a student's project and leave a positive comment. eg " I love the scratch cat sprite"

  • Demonstrate how to add work to the studio, - as most students need to see how to do this.

  • Have students help each other to add their work to the class studio. View student work together as a class.

If time permits, students view class studio from their computers and leave each other positive feedback comments.

Tip: To get student attention try the procedure call: "laptop courtesy" -students put laptop at 45 angle and look up.

Discuss the following questions:

• • • What were the blocks you used today? What did they do?

    • What do you think you will create using Scratch?

    • Any ideas on how you might express yourself through scratch?