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Best Practices to Consider:
Best Practices to Consider:
Consider using a student as the person controlling the iPad when presenting the lesson to the class. It models the "driver-navigator" protocol for the students.
Consider not allowing students to choose their own Sprites. Limiting student choice in the beginning will keep the lesson moving but allow them time to play and explore when time allows.
Day 1: Make a Sprite Move across the Screen
Day 1: Make a Sprite Move across the Screen
Based on Scratch Jr. official lesson - Drive across the city.
(CCSS.Math.Content.1.MDA.1 : Using grid,
- Learn how to pick a sprite, choose a background, resize your sprite and make it move measuring on the background grid.
Day 2: Dialogue with Sending Secret Messages
Day 2: Dialogue with Sending Secret Messages
Similar to official Scratch Jr. lesson on Conversations.
- Learn how to add a scene, move scene/slide order, pick a background, add sprites and change sprite colors, have the two sprites move using the move block and grid and compose a conversation between the two sprites using the secret message blocks.
Day 3: Hide and Show Animations
Day 3: Hide and Show Animations
Use Hide and Show blocks (under the look menu to code character animations and add to the story.
Day 4: Simple Storyboard
Day 4: Simple Storyboard
- Simple Storyboard (template)
- Start with describing the climax or main confrontation between the characters, then problem solve about how that conflict started.
- Code and go!
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.1-3
Other Curricular Integration Ideas
Other Curricular Integration Ideas
- Make a maze
- Animate a step-by-step story
- Code a number line animation
Written by Dax Smith, Sarah Breton, and Rick Bush
Find the official Scratch Jr. Lessons here.
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