My Scratch Story

Exploring Computer ScienceLesson 4-7

ObjectivesThe students will be able to:

• Broadcast events.• Develop a Scratch story

project.• Complete a Scratch story.• Assess their peers to help

them gauge their progress.• Prepare and make a

presentation of a Scratch story to the class.

Your GoalYou are going to create a story in Scratch and present it to the class.Your Scratch Program must have:• 4 Scenes• 3 Sprites• 8 Say or Think Boxes• At least one conversation• An opening scene with your

name.

Scratch Story RubricDo you have? Points

PossibleThe Story  Have at least 3 scenes 10Have at least 4 scenes 5Have at least 3 different sprites 10Have at least 8 say or think boxes 10Animate the movement of your characters or add appropriate sounds

5

Use broadcast to change scenes in your story

10

Have the characters take turns speaking to each other

5

Have at least one conversation between characters

5

Do you have? PointsPossible

Have a title scene with your name on it 10Story initializes itself when the flag is clicked

4

The entire story plays once you click the flag

4

The Presentation  Explain an example from your program of how events (broadcast) were used to transition from one scene to another.

10

Peer Grading 12Extra Credit  Have the best project as voted on by peers

Up to 10

TOTAL: 100

Journal

• Brainstorm some ideas for your story.

• Review your story ideas with your group. Give your suggestions on how to make the story better.

• In your journals complete your story. • What are the scenes?• Who are in the scenes?• What is the dialogue?• Try list the timings! It will help

with the “waits”

Develop Your Story

When is this due?

• You must have your Scratch program complete by the end of class on Friday February 27th.

• This is a lot of work! You cannot wait until the last day. I expect to see progress every day.

• You should have the idea for your entire story.• Are you going use the existing

Sprites or find new ones?• What will your stages be?

• I want to see your storyboard for the first scene with the timings. • You can also review the scratch

tutorials(scratch.mit.edu)

Today!