My Scratch Demonstration

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My Scratch Demonstration

• Rita Coulon

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Story Telling

• This lesson could be used toPractice writing
  skills or to summarize learning objectives and
  many other ideas too.

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My Project is Designed to

• Demonstrate Scratch
• Basics
• Programming tidbits
• Possible Projects
• I Intend to share what I have learned with
  Content Area Teachers at my school.

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Session I

• Introduce Scratch Vocabulary
• Navigate Scratch Program
• View Sample Projects
• Create a simple Scratch file

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Session II

• Practice with Scratch and explore all the
  possibilities of the new concepts learned
• Create a simple Scratch project.
• Share experiences with participants

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Practice Project
The first project for teachers is to create their
own short story or poem by making the text switch
randomly from pre-typed lines.
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Setting the Stage

• The Stage needs to be customized to fit the story
  being told.
• Click the backgrounds tab
• Then click Edit
• You may now import a picture to the stage.
• Type your title and tagline.
• Remember this will not change when the program
  is running

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The Sprites

• Now we must create 5 sprites with 5 costumes
• These lines will be used to tell the story later
  randomly.

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Scripts Used

• Scripts used
• Control Menu When key pressed
• Looks Menu
• Switch to continue
• Operators Menu
• Pick random
• Note The script has to be placed on each sprite
  for this to work properly.

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Thank you

• Once you are finished simply press the space bar
  to see your story in action.
• Dont forget to save often
• Thank you for learning something new

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Scratch Resources

• http//scratched.media.mit.edu/
• http//learnscratch.org/
• http//scratch.redware.com/lessonplan