SCRATCH Plan for 2008-2009 School Year

Submitted by Molly Schroeder on Wed, 10/01/2008 - 4:22pm.

Project Plan

Topic: Artistic Expression/Interactive Diagram> Introduce Ourselves

Timeline

  • August: Offer this as a project for technology intgration at COP meeting in August
  • October: SMM resources available for October 20th COP meeting
  • October: Introduce SCRATCH to a group of students
    • 4 corners project
  • November: Imagine, Create, Play, Share, Reflect, Imagine
  • December: Share SCRATCH projects with others


Audience

  • COP members
  • Who will we share our SCRATCH projects with?
  • Parents, Teachers, Buddy Class, Administration


Topic/Theme: Artistic Expression/Interactive Diagram>Introduce Yourself


Technology Standards


Purpose/Goal

  • Introduce students to SCRATCH
  • Experience with the Lifelong learning cycle Imagine -> Reflect -> Imagine
  • Share our projects with a real audience


How many people did you include in your project


Resources/Tools


SMM Staff Support

  • Bring SMM support staff to COP meeting on October 20th: 9:30-12:00

Plan:

Begin with a Cell phone and brainstorm with the students all the different features of a cell phone

Begin a conversation of how you can progarm things to do different things

Where do you see computer programming in the real world?

  • Video Games

  • Computers

  • Cell Phones

  • Stop lights

Start Small

Vocabulary




  • Sprite

  • Computer Program

  • Input

  • Output

  • Costume
  • Background
  • Move
  • Glide

Prior to day 1

  1. Have students create a rough draft of the 4 corners assignment by taking a blank white paper and writing their name in the center.  In the top right corner have them write a hobby they enjoy, in the top left corner have them write something they like about school, in the bottom right corner have them write a hope and dream for the school year and in teh bottom left have them write their favorite food.  They should come to day 1 with this document completed.

Day 1

  1. Begin class discussion about cell phones, computers, video games and where computer programming is in the real world

  2. Brainstorm and record different places where kids see computer programming in the real world.  Keep this list up for additions throughout the project

  3. Show a basic sprite in Scratch and introduce the computer program

    • Show how you can animate the Scratch Sprite

    • Make him glide, say something, change costume, move, etc.

    • Introduce vocabulary for Scratch
  4. Ask the students how they think we could use Scratch with their 4 corners rough draft project?

  5. Who would we share these projects with?

  6. What kind of a timeline do we need in order to share this with our audience?

Day 2

  1. Mini Scratch Lesson showing students how to animate their name

  2. Walk each student through creating a sprite of their name, changing the costume, giving it some animation and saving the project.

    • Write their name with the drawing tools 

 

Animate your Name to make it change color

Students will also have to make 2 costumes so that the name changes in some way.

 

 

 

 

Day 3

  1.  Tell students they are going to start adding to their 4 corners project by creating 4 new sprites for each corner of their project.

  2. Hand out the Scratch Cards so that students can have other ideas for animation on their sprites

  3. At the end of the work time, have students walk around and share the things they have created

  4. This would be a great day to have the SMM staff as a resource to help students imagine and play!

  5. At the end of the session ask the class to reflect a bit on what they learned, what they saw, how they are going to change things tomorrow, etc

Day 4-5-?

  1. Work time for students to imagine, create, play, share, reflect, imagine!

At the end of the Project

  1. Have students present their Scratch Projects to the class in a formal presentation

  2. Ask students to reflect on this project

  3. Brainstorm other ideas you could use Scratch for

  4. Make a plan as to how you are going to share your Scratch projects

  5. Who else would like to learn about Scratch?  How can we help?