SCRATCH

This is a great way to start creating stories with our students, with the help of Scratch software

Here you can find some tutorial cards to use in the English class so that it will help our students creating stories in the EFL class.

This is an adventure where students create parallel stories so that the reader can interact with the story and create their own one.

Here you can find a sample of the project

Choose your own adventure is an activity that combines educational robotics with the creation of stories and coding. In this case, we will create different scenarios that, combined, can give way to many different stories.

Age: 10-12 years old.

Key Competences: C1, C3, C5, C6, C8, C9, C10

Description: This activity will improve language competence of our students and will work their ability to create contents.

Materials:

• Makey makey
• Tablet and/or computer (If it's with a tablet, we should buy a USB adaptor to connect the Makey Makey to it)
• Dry erase white boards, erasers and pens.

How to do it:

• The students are divided into groups of three and create a new Scratch project.
• Each story has three parts: Beginning, Middle, End.
• The activity consists in creating a Beginning and giving two options for the Middle part, when they finish each one, each Middle Part will have to find two possible outcomes.

Implementació:

• SESSION 1

Imagine a story and draw the storyboard on a dry erase whiteboard. If there is time, start creating the story using Scratch.

• SESSION 2

Search or create a backdrop, choose the characters and start with the first part of the story.

• SESSION 3

Continue with the two options for the Middle Part. We can use the same characters or hide them, we can also change or keep the backdrop.

To choose between the two options, we will use the blocks: "When this sprite clicked", and then we will start with the coding of the middle part (changing backdrops, actions, dialogues, etc.)

• SESSION 4

We will continue creating the alternative endings and we will try to make sure everything works correctly once we connect the Makey Makey.

When we finish, we will do an exhibition of stories where we can walk around the class and interact with the stories of our classmates.

Variation:

• We can use the Makey Makey to be able to make our story transcribe the screen and be able to explain it through an interactive story created by the students.