Learning Objectives
Students will know the steps in an iterative design process - plan, code, test, debug (5.4)
Students will be able to storyboard their project (5.4)
Students will know when and how to give credit to sources they have used in their project, like images or ideas (5.6)
Students will be able to cite their sources (5.6)
Activity
Introduce students to either the Virtual Field Trip Self-Evaluation or Virtual Field Trip Rubric.
If you have time, this would be a great opportunity to set expectations [CS teaching strategy] with your students. Look at examples of field trips on Scratch together and have students brainstorm a list of “must have” they think they should include in theirs.
Today’s goal is to begin iterating [SOL: 5.4] on their project by working on getting the background images and sprites (people, artifacts, etc.) for each of their scenes based on their plan.
Students work on gathering/creating sprites and backdrop images for scenes.
Demo to the class how to create sprites and backgrounds (Watch the Sprites and Backdrops video for help).
Students can use the Scratch paint tool or Piskel to create images.
Students can use google search to find images. Make sure that they copy the website URL into their Image Citations at the bottom of their planning doc. Make sure the URL does not include google (that is just a reference to the image and also google is never a valid citation for an image).
Students log in to Scratch and start adding sprites and backdrop images into a project.
Discussion
Have students share out their works-in-progress, ask what was difficult and how they solved their problems (or ask other students for ideas if they haven’t solved problems)
Ask students about if and how they have had to change their plans.
Exit ticket
What did you accomplish today? (Describe tasks you finished and/or new things you learned.)
What are you going to work on next?
What, if anything, is blocking you from making progress?