4th Grade Computers Week 1

Hello Greenwood friends! I hope everyone is staying safe, sound and heavily sanitized throughout this ongoing cabin fever inducing adventure! I will be email you lesson plans each week that that can be split into two weekly sections taking around 20-30 minutes to complete. If your student is showing a serious interest in the subject at hand, by all means let them continue past whatever lessons I have sent.

For week one we have the following lesson. This should be pretty easy for your child because we have briefly covered this subject earlier in the year. It’s important that students complete these lessons because they tend to build in complexity based on earlier Scratch tutorials and we’ll continue to explore this website in the upcoming years.

Parents, it’s a good idea to make a Scratch account for your student so that all of their work will be saved. Simply go to https://scratch.mit.edu/ and click on the “Join Scratch” button on the top-right of the page.

Please go to the following website and have your student follow the directions that accompany the lesson:

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tutorial=all

From here students should do the following:

1. Click on the “Make a Chase Game” tutorial with the image of the octopus.

This will bring up a video tutorial covering some advanced basics of Scratch. What your student must understand is that the blocks and their operations that are located on the left side of the screen are color coded. Each section has its own set of operations. For example, the blue motion section has all of the motions for your character (characters are called ‘Sprites’). The Looks section has a different set of operations, etc.

2. Have your student complete the tutorial for the “Make a Chase Game” section. By clicking on the green arrow to the right of the video tutorial students can see the step-by-step process of making the game.

If there are any questions, feel free to contact me. Stay safe!

- J

Jason Barlowe

jasonbarlowe@missouristate.edu