- Preliminaries
- If you have not already installed Scratch, go to http://scratch.mit.edu/download. It only takes 60 seconds.
- You probably already have java installed, but just in case: http://www.java.com/en/
- When you play a game online, allow Java to run in your browser
- Source code for the projects we will be building is found below as attachments. So is the silly powerpoint.
- Introduction (5 minutes) download
- Dumb First Project (10 minutes) download
- Blocks and colors
- Beginning and ending
- Moving a "Sprite"
- Changing "costumes"
- Adding sounds
- Tidying code
- Code attached below
- Save and upload
- Download
- First Recess (10 minutes)
- Second Project: Classic Pong (15 minutes) download
- Pointing in Direction
- Random turns
- Touching color
- Variables
- Tidying code
- Code attached below
- Second Recess (15 minutes)
- The Scratch Social Network (10 minutes)
- Third Project: Creating Internal Angles of Regular Polygons (10) download
- Discovering the Pen
- Teaching Class Material
- Geometric Principles
- Third Recess (10 minutes)