Day 9

Instructional Day: 9

Topic Description: This lesson introduces the concept of broadcasting through role play and then provides students an

opportunity to complete a broadcast event in Scratch.

Objectives:

The students will be able to:

 Broadcast events.

 Listen to and respond to events they create.

 Change the background of the stage.

Outline of the Lesson:

 Journal Entry (5 minutes)

 Discussion of journal entry (2 minutes)

 Role Play (20 minutes)

 Scratch Summer Story (28 minutes)

Student Activities:

 Complete journal entry.

 Participate in discussion of journal entry.

 Participate in role play.

 Create a Scratch summer story.

Students will do the following:

Today's activities will be done in a group of 3 or 4 students. Form a group and sit next to each other for the day.

Look inside the program and figure out what broadcasting does in the program.

1. Journal Entry: What does it mean to broadcast something (example the radio station is broadcasting music right

now)? If a radio or television station is broadcasting something, does that mean that everyone is listening to it?

 Discussion of journal entry

2. Have a few students share their responses.

3. Role Play (in your group of 4 students)

o Each group member will act out a character.

o Performers will write on a paper with ONLY their part.

o Use this document as a guide:

o The students can think of it as a three act play where the scenes change. The difference here is that

there are no curtains so they will see everything change.

o The teacher will be the director and will make sure everything and everyone is in place during each

scene. The teacher can yell action before the scene starts to signify that everything checks out.

o Each performer’s paper is broken into scripts for the various scenes.

o One performer will be in charge of setting the stage. They can do this by erasing and drawing pictures

on the white board behind the stage.

Discussion

 In Scratch, any sprite can broadcast its own event.

 One reason why The Cat is doing the broadcasts is because he is the last one to act in the first

two scenes. Therefore he knows when the scene is over.

 Other sprites (including the one that broadcasts the event) can receive the event and perform a

script

Grading Rubric: Copy and paste this rubric to your course website and fill it out.

Summer Story Project Sample Rubric

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