I am jumping the gun a little…Dr. Juan Carlos Olabe-Basogain from Christian Brothers University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is coming to do a Scratch workshop with my after-school computer club students in about a month. Currently, they are in the throes of a major music video project (GarageBand meets art project meets PhotoBooth meets iMovie and Tennessee eTales winner here we come!), but we will pause for Scratch. And yes, currently there is a major movie set light kit in my storage closet thanks to a very generous community member who lent it to us for filming on Thursday…but I digress!
The plan was, these Scratch-versed students were going to be available to their classmates to help with Scratch when I later started it in general fifth and sixth grade classes; however, our scheduling got a bit off, so I am starting with some basic Scratch projects in classes before the big workshop. Creating a “Pong” game is a little far off…so I’ve created a fairly straightforward lesson. Currently, I plan to have students working in pairs instead of individually. We’ll see how that goes…
Scratch, Lesson One
Objective: Make an animated dot that flashes between three colors: red, yellow, and green. It will flash 12 times when the green flag is clicked.
Step-by-Step Guide for Students: scratchlessonone
Lesson add-ons:
–Have students add a sound between each flash
–Make the dot move along the X axis as it flashes, bouncing if it hits the wall
More to come later about the computer club video project…it’s just too much to deal with right now without blogging about the CHAOS! Just kidding. Or am I?…
March 4th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
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