Day 3

These are resources provided for participants in "Scratch Camp" and Scratch programming / learning events sponsored through the Div Jr. Program in Edmond, Oklahoma.

Resources for July 18, 2012: Game Day Part 1!

Curriculum for Scratch Camp by Div Jr instructors is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Please direct questions about this curriculum to staff at The Div.

Introductions

Welcome to Scratch Day 2012 (Happy 5th Birthday Scratch!)

Scratch Day | Welcome 2012 from ScratchEd on Vimeo.

Let's Play Scratch Bingo! (This activity is included as page 15 in the Scratch Workshop Design Guide)

Goals

    1. Explore and play some cool Scratch games

    2. Learn some techniques for creating games in Scratch

    3. Create a 'maze' type game in Scratch

Explore and Play

Let's start with an "8 Block Scratch Challenge." In 15 minutes, create a cool project in Scratch using just these 8 blocks. (This activity is included as page 16 in the Scratch Workshop Design Guide)

To see what's possible with game design in Scratch, check out these examples:

  1. Ten Levels

  2. Alien of My Own

These were included in Karen Brennan's ScratchED post, "BLC Pre-Conference Workshop: Let's Play! Game Design with Scratch - Monday, July 15, 2012"

More projects to explore:

  1. Top "Loved" Scratch Games

Here are some sample projects to enhance a Scratch game (including MAZE games):

These were included in Karen Brennan's ScratchED post, "BLC Pre-Conference Workshop: Let's Play! Game Design with Scratch - Monday, July 15, 2012"

CREATE

Create your own MAZE Scratch game!

These links were included in Karen Brennan's "Let's Play" post on ScratchED.

SHARE

Please upload / share the projects you create today to your Scratch profile. This Scratch project explains how! (Press the spacebar to move between slides.)

Here are some questions we'll ask and discuss as we share our Scratch projects:

    1. How did you do that?

    2. What did you get stuck on? How did you get unstuck?

    3. What are you most proud of? Why?

    4. What might you want to do next?

Remember you can check out and link to your classmates' Scratch profiles at the bottom of our July 2012 Scratch Camp homepage.