Plan: Greeting Card

Lesson Overview

Students will begin the creation of a Greeting Card project in Scratch that will show their understanding of parallelism.

In this first lesson of a three lesson sequence, students will plan out their Greeting Card project on paper using a planning guide, then begin building their project using Scratch.

Agenda

⭐️ Introduce: Greeting Card projects in Scratch (5 min.)
💥 Mini-Lesson: Initialization and Parallelism in Scratch (5 min.)
📝 Plan: Greeting Card project on paper (15-20 min.)
🚧 Build: Greeting Card project in Scratch (15-25 min.)
📓 Reflect: (5 min.)
- How did the planning guide help you start your project in Scratch?
- What are you excited to add to your Greeting Card project next class?

Materials

computing devices for all students
Greeting Card Planning Guide, printed
- English / Spanish
Blue Level Student Workbooks, pp. 4-5
- English / Spanish
Greeting Card Scratch studio (teacher-created)

Full Lesson Plan

Scratch Project Resources

Greeting Card starter projects: sprites & backdrops (no code) / exploded code

Greeting Card example project: It's Your Birthday

Vocabulary

event: an action that causes something to happen

initialize: assign a starting point for an object

parallelism: sets of instructions that run at the same time

Standards

CA CSS 3-5.AP.12 Create programs that include events, loops, and conditionals.
CA CSS 3-5.AP.13 Decompose problems into smaller, manageable tasks which may themselves be decomposed.

Additional Resources

Scratch website: scratch.mit.edu
Scratch Project Student Checklist
Getting Unstuck Strategies from the Creative Computing Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education

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