Day 3

Instructional Day: 3

Topic Description: This lesson provides students an opportunity to practice using the features of Scratch outlined on Day 1 in the context of creating a simple program.

Objectives:

The students will be able to:

 Complete a simple Scratch program.

 Utilize the green flag feature.

Outline of the Lesson:

 Journal Entry (5 minutes)

 Class discussion of journal entry (15 minutes)

 Name programs (90 minutes)

Student Activities:

 Complete journal entry.

 Share journal entry responses with the entire class.

 Write programs based on their own names.

Students will do the following:

1.Journal Entry: What do you remember about Scratch from yesterday? What do some of the blocks do?

 Class discussion of journal entry

o Allow students to share their responses.

o In the process, make sure to review concepts needed to finish the name project.

o Review rubric for name project.

o Tell students that they will do a gallery walk of the projects at the beginning of tomorrow.

2. Name programs

o Students write programs based on their own names.

o Teacher circulates room checking progress and answering questions.

o Before time is up, remind students to save their work.

o Remind students that Scratch is free to download at scratch.mit.edu.

Resources:

 ScratchGettingStarted.pdf (scratch.mit.edu)

 name.sb

 Name Sample Rubric

 http://scratch.mit.edu