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: _______________________