1.2: Animate a Name

Students will continue to explore the XY Coordinate grid in Scratch, and use it to practice moving a sprite around the stage.

OBJECTIVES

OBJECTIVES: By the end of this lesson, students will:

- gain familiarity with scratch interface
- introduce scratch tutorials as a resource
- observe that commands are processed from top to bottom in a sequence.
- Share creative work and collaborate with peers.

TEACHER RESOURCES:

Student Page

Demo Project

SLIDES

Standards

- CSTA A2-AP-17 Systematically test and refine programs using a range of test cases

CSTA

Do Now (5 minutes)

Impacts of computing (5 minutes)

Students watch part or all of the video iLuminate (2.28) then respond to the following questions:

1. What surprised you about what you saw in this video?
2. Why does Moral Kotb love about dance?
3. What does Moral Kotb love about coding?

TEACHER GUIDANCE:

People do not normally think of dance and code going to together. People from very different backgrounds come together to create amazing performances using code to trigger lights sewn on to dancers costumes.
Kotb loves to dance because she can be herself on the stage and express her-self through dance. It makes her happy.
She loves coding because you can press a button and immediately see something happen, also coding earns her respect from her peers.

Mini-Lesson (5-10 minutes)

The goal of today's class is to gain familiarity with the scratch interface: by adding sprites, backdrops, code and by using tutorials.

Concepts to spread are:

Sequence: Scripts are processed in order from top to bottom.
Events: cause action to happen. (when green flag clicked, when sprite clicked)
Computer Science can be collaborative, creative and expressive: In this class we share computers and showcase work.

Remind students to work in pairs and use both their names when crediting who created the project.

Project (20-30 minutes)

This lesson explores the online scratch tutorial - Animate a name.

Agenda

Login and create a project in scratch. Name, Share and Add project to studio.
Create project - animate a name
Showcase class projects ( last 15 minutes of class).

Project: Animate a Name Tutorial:

Show students how to access scratch Tutorial - Animate a Name. Play video together. Ask what they will create? If working in pairs, what word will they animate?

Close-Out (5 minutes)

Discuss the following questions:

- How did your animation to start?
- Did you notice that your script happened in a certain order?
- In this class we will showcase work often. Give me an example of positive constructive feedback?

Showcase everyones projects in the classroom studio.

Potential Responses

Green flag clicked, or click on this sprite. These are events. Double clicking commands, also allows the computer to read them.
Yes, Each command was processed from top to bottom, one after another. This is called a sequence.

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