Year 3 Hour of Code
Lesson Expectations
Lesson Expectations
- Students to have logged onto Scratch with their Scratch Username and Password
- Students to have navigated and understood the Scratch interface
- Students to have learned and understood at least two coding vocabulary words
- All students to have used one of the Scratch techniques to create a Google Doodle
- Most students to have used two of the Scratch techniques to create a Google Doodle
- Some students to have used 3 or 4 of the Scratch techniques to create a Google Doodle
What is a Doodle?
What is a Doodle?
"A Google Doodle is a special, temporary alteration of the logo onGoogle's homepages that commemorates holidays, events, achievements, and people."
Take a look at some examples by click here.
The Pilot and The Navigator
The Pilot and The Navigator
For this lesson you will work in pairs. One of you will start by being the pilot and the other will start by being the navigator.
The Pilot
The Pilot
The pilot controls the computer with the mouse or the keyboard.
The Navigator
The Navigator
The navigator should support the pilot with the task, but does not control the computer.
Task 1
Task 1
- Click the Scratch Logo to open Scratch
- Click Remix in the top corner
- Log into Scratch with the Username and Password that you have been given
Your username will be in the following format:
sh<1st 2 letters of first name><1st 2 letters of last name>21
sh<1st 2 letters of first name><1st 2 letters of last name>21
For example John Smith from Year 3 would be shjosm21
Task 2
Task 2
Create your own Google Doodle using code to change the look of the Google Logo.
Check out the videos to help you by clicking the Google Logo.
Can you :
- Change the colour of the letters?
- Get your letters to say something?
- Switch the costume of your letters?
- Add a backdrop?
- Edit, draw or add letters to your Doodle?
- Jumble the letters?
- Turn your letters into a game?
- Make your letters spin?
- Add a button that makes a change to the screne?
- Make your letters dance to music?
- Animate your letters to make them bounce?
- Play a sound when the letter disappears?
