Scratch+Learning+Game+Project


 * Scratch – Learning Games **

toc =Objective:= Create a game or application using Scratch which helps teach or reinforce an important skill.

We will be using the Scratch programming language to create the game.

__ ** Watch the video on Scratch 2.0 to see how it works. ** __ media type="custom" key="23749170"

=Your product should:=
 * be user friendly
 * teach an important skill or concept
 * show creativity and originality.
 * be debugged.

=__ ** Important Reminder:  ** __= During this project You will need to make sure that you take note of all your sources of pictures from sources other than Scratch and information to include in the bibliography at the end of the project. Please Remember: You are expected to only use media licensed for reuse or reuse and modification depending on what you plan to do with it. Google Advanced Search is one of the easiest ways to locate this type of media. Please use the tutorial  if you need a refresher on how to do this.

Lesson 1
This is a programming project in which you will prepare a [|__series of interview questions for a prepa and/or 1st grade teacher__]  about concepts or skills they feel their grade levels need help in. You will work in pairs for this part of the project. Your ideas must be put in the Google Doc planning document. It must be shared with your teacher. You must include a description of your vision for the project in this same document.

Rubric
Please have a look at the rubric for the project. We will be using this to mark your work. Don't worry if you don't understand some of it right now, you will in time.

Lesson 2
During the first half of this lesson you will visit a Prepa or 1st Grade class. This will be your opportunity to observe the work students are doing and ask the teacher in charge your questions. You will have approximately 20 minutes to complete this task, which includes taking notes in your Google Doc. You will be using Google Drive on the iPad to do this. You will need to log in with your school account and remember to log out at the end of the lesson.

Here is the Timetable for the class visits:

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> __ ** Week A 16th November ** __

 ** Monday 16 Nov: **  7C 11:25 7A 1:05 ** Katy Sullivan **  ** Thursday 19th Nov: ** 7C 9:10 // (We only need one of the 7C blocks.) //
 * Tuesday 17th Nov: ** 7D 7:20// 7B 10:30 (We only need one of the 7B blocks.) //
 * Friday 20th: ** 7E 7:20 // 7B 11:25 //

__ ** HW for this Lesson ** __
<span style="-webkit-user-select: text; background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px;">Create an account for this project, at http://scratch.mit.edu and make sure you can log in at the beginning of the next lesson.

** New **
View some of the interview photos from last year's project. <span style="-webkit-user-select: text; color: #080707; font-size: 130%; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">

<span style="-webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lesson 3
__ <span style="-webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Starter: Gathering the Information __ <span style="-webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ensure that you are logged into your school Google Apps account. <span style="-webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Click on this link. You should be able to see a survey. Read the instructions with care and fill in the survey please.

<span style="-webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You must finish planning the project using your copy of the project planning template which can be accessed through Google Drive or Classroom. // ** __ Do NOT __ ** make a copy of the template in this link! //

Use the notes and ideas you collected during the class visit

<span style="-webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We will be using Scratch 2.0 for this project. Scratch 2.0 is a new option, which allows you can access it at any time on the web and even work from home. You should have created a new account for this project, at http://scratch.mit.edu

Next you will begin to work on the project. Remember, you are working in pairs and in a few cases trios. Sit together.

You will probably want to begin with ** sprites **, their ** costumes ** and stage backdrops and think about movement  with keys and by following the mouse, interacting with other sprites and random movement.

<span style="-webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lesson 4
__ ** <span style="-webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Starter: ** __ We will collect the information gathered by the class during the web conference and/or class visit by adding it to Socrative. Use the room code your teacher provides for you.

Your teacher will send you the spreadsheet of results through Google Classroom as view only, once we are done.

Go to the Broadcasting Review remix it and work through it with a partner. You should end up with a conversation between the cat and dog. media type="custom" key="28072061"

Use the remainder of the lesson to work on adding ** broadcasting ** to your project and finishing up with your ** backdrops ** and ** sprites **.

Reflection:
I** s your project copyright friendly? Have you remembered to collect the urls for any images you have used? **

A Reminder about Images!
Please make sure you use the resources from our copyright friendly collection or perform a Google Advanced Search for content that you can reuse and share or reuse and modify.



Y__ ou must collect all of the urls up for the credits section of the game. __ ** __ Copy and paste them into your planning document. __ **

Word Walls
<span style="-webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here is a snapshot of the word wall from a 1st grade class. If you are doing a language based game, you may want to use these words in your project or ask the teacher about any additional words you have planned to use.

__ ** Starter Gathering More Information ** __
Now that you have had a chance to work on your plan a bit more and have probably begun the scripting of the game, you may have a few more questions for the teacher. Here is your chance to ask a question or two. Remember, be specific and ensure that you only ask questions that you know will help you tailor your project to the abilities of the Prepa and 1st grade students.

Please fill in the form below. I will leave it open so you can go back and ask as many questions as needed over the course of the week. ** REMEMBER to sign into you school account in order to access this Google Form. **

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Loops
Continue working on your project and consider how you might use f orever and forever if and Repeat to complete a sequence of events and loops, for movement, and sensing.

Consider how you might use ** random operators ** for movement in your project.

If you are having trouble with movement try out the following practice activities. You can also use them to help you work through the homework for today.

Use this link to go to the studio which contains the projects below.
 * ** Key Movement Practice ** || ** Key Movement and ** ** Costume Change ** ** Practice ** ||
 * media type="custom" key="27329354" || media type="custom" key="27329428" ||

Homework
Try the Scratch Movement Review Challenge 1- Keys Try Scratch Movement Review Challenge 2- Mouse Try Scratch Movement Review Challenge 3 - Random
 * New **

Now Answer these questions. You need to be logged in to your ABC account to do this.

Check your work so far:

 * Have you told your sprites where to start off when the green flag is clicked?
 * Have you included broadcasting in your project?
 * Do any of your sprites need to hide at any point? If so have you had them show again?
 * Have you included sound in your project?
 * Will you be including points or lives in your project?

Check your work against the rubric for the project.

We will learn how to create and use ** variables ** for lives, scores etc, generating a response and consider ways to enhance your project with variables. You should all attempt to include one variable minimum in your project.

** Lessons 7-9 **
<span style="-webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">These lessons are for finishing off: working out the bugs and polishing your project. Today we will start off with some sound work. You will work through the Basic Sound in Scratch lesson as your first task.

__ ** <span style="-webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Remember! ** __ <span style="-webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Projects must contain bibliographies. These will include your interviews as well as any websites you have consulted and ideas, Scratch projects or images you have used. If you need a reminder of how to create them in ABC-Net Easybib.

<span style="-webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__ ** Debugging ** __ is the process of methodically checking for bugs(errors) in a computer program and fixing them. <span style="-webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Please refer to the Scratch Wiki for more information on debugging Scratch Projects. <span style="-webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">

** Adding Projects to the studio **
During the next lesson you will need to add your project to the ABCICT Learning Games Studio. Please make sure that you have made all the alterations, debugged your project and made sure it is working properly before this lesson.

Lesson 10
<span style="-webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Task 1: Add your project to the ABCICT Class of 2021 Learning Games Studio which has been unlocked for this lesson. <span style="-webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Task 2: You must add your Scratch project to your response blog, by embedding the code for your project, which is available on the Scratch site.
 * <span style="-webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You must write a minimum of 2 sentences in reflection on your project.

<span style="-webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Finally you will need to assess another group's work. You can do so on the Scratch Website, as they will have added it to the ABCICT Class of 2021 Studio for this Project.


 * <span style="-webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Please add a positive comment for the group, constructive criticism and fill in the Peer assessment Form in Google Docs.
 * <span style="-webkit-user-select: text; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A copy of it has been placed in your Google Drive and is accessible through both Drive and Classroom.

== __ Your projects should include movement, broadcasting, variables and various stages and sprites. __
 * ===** Please Remember!  **===

__ Create your citations using EasyBib and add them to the project before uploading it. __ ||