Plan: Tour Guide

Lesson Overview

Students will begin the creation of a Tour Guide project in Scratch that will show their understanding of forever loops.

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

Agenda

  1. ⭐️ Introduce: Tour Guide projects in Scratch (5 min.)

  2. 💥 Mini-Lesson: Initialization in Scratch (5 min.)

  3. 📝 Plan: Tour Guide project on paper (15-20 min.)

  4. 🚧 Build: Tour Guide project in Scratch (15-25 min.)

  5. 📓 Reflect: (5 min.)

    • How did the planning guide help you start your project in Scratch?

    • What are you excited to add to your Tour Guide project next class?

Materials

  • computing devices for all students

  • Tour Guide Planning Guide, printed

  • Blue Level Student Workbooks, pp. 8-9

  • Tour Guide Scratch studio (teacher-created)

Scratch Project Resources

Tour Guide starter projects: sprites & backdrops (no code) / exploded code

Tour Guide example projects: France Tour Guide Remix (Student-Created) / Come Visit Peru (Teacher-Created)

Vocabulary

copyright: a law that protects a creator's rights and requires other people to get permission to use, copy, and share their work

Creative Commons: a copyright license that makes it easier for people to copy, share, and build on other people's creative work, as long as they give credit to the creator

digital citizen: someone who acts safely, responsibly, and respectfully online

initialize: assign a starting point for an object

loop: repeat a sequence of instructions

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