Day 10

Instructional Days: 10-13

Topic Description: Students will review how to broadcast events by developing a Scratch story and presenting it to the

class.

Objectives:

The students will be able to:

 Broadcast events.

 Complete a Scratch story.

 Develop a Scratch story project.

 Assess their peers to help them gauge their progress.

 Complete a rubric.

 Prepare and make a presentation of a Scratch story to the class.

Outline of the Lesson:

 Introduction of project (5 minutes)

 Journal Entry (5 minutes)

 Review of brainstorming (10 minutes)

 Scratch story (35 minutes)

 Scratch story project (40 minutes)

 Peer review and discussion (15 minutes)

 Completion of Scratch story project (55 minutes)

 Presentation of stories (55minutes)

Student Activities:

 Complete journal entry.

 Participate in discussion of brainstorming.

 Develop a Scratch story.

 Develop Scratch story project.

 Participate in peer review and discussion.

 Complete Scratch story project.

 Present stories.

Students will do the following:

In groups formed last class implement the dialog using broadcast in scratch.

Introduction of project

1.Show rubric: Story Project Sample Rubric.

 Emphasize that they will make a small presentation along with showing their story.

 Emphasize that there is extra credit for the best stories.

2.Show example:

 Journal Entry: Brainstorm some ideas for your story.

 Review of brainstorming

3.Split students into groups of three.

 Have students rotate so that each student will share brainstorms and receive feedback/suggestions from the

other students.

4.Develop the story

o Have them first develop their story on paper.

 Scratch story project

o Remind students of the problem solving that they did in unit 2 and that they can use that process to

develop their overall plan and algorithm; they can also make a storyboard similar to those used in unit 3.

o Circulate room and help students with projects.

o If students don’t know where to start

 Suggest that they first develop their story further on paper.

o If they have their story and don’t know where to start

 Suggest that they make a title screen or a first scene.

o If students get stuck, break the project into smaller parts. Have them focus on the next part that they

can complete.

o Refer them to the rubric to make sure they know what they need to complete in order to earn the grade

that they want.

 Peer review and discussion

o Circulate the room and make sure students understand the rubric and what they still need to accomplish

to finish their project.

 Completion of Scratch story project

o Circulate room and help students with projects.

o Collect projects and rubrics.

o Help students prepare their presentations.

 Presentation of stories

o Have students complete the Peer Grading sheet.

o Discuss the features used in the various stories. Ask students why certain things work/don’t work well.

o To help students vote on the best, you may need to do a quick recap of the stories, i.e. Bob’s story about

Poodles.

 Students should consider both the content and the items in the rubric in their voting.

 If the class does not finish presentations in one day, the voting will be done the next day.

Resources:

 cat story.sb

 Story Project Sample Rubric

 Peer Grading

Copy and paste and fill out the grading rubric below to your class website:

Name: _______________________