This year, Mr. Loftstadt allows grade 2 students to use Scratch as an option when presenting their simple machine project. Gabriel made a presentation on lever titled “How to move an elephant”.
Note: You have to click on some of the buttons, and also the level and the guy at the end to advance the presentation, as this is designed to be presented along side a verbal presentation.
We want to use Scratch to create art. This handout contains an example script that draw some basic art. Once you have tried that, try doing the challenge and make your own master piece: scratch_artist_1
This week, after some casual playing around with movement, we focus on finding a few good ways to make a sprite move around the stage. This handout explains some of the movement concepts.ways_to_move
We always start our scratch club with a self introduction project. Simple try out all the drawing tools and some of the say blocks to make a little movie (script) to tell us about yourselves!
You can look at the example that I made here.
Update: One of our students, after a few weeks of detail work, made a story about how her mom and dad meet!
Last year we only use our computer’s local harddrive for storing student projects. It was not the idea situation. We tried to get everyone the same laptop each week, but that does not always work. It also make “show-and-tell” very hard to do. These older Windows laptops just do not behave well when trying to use thumbdrives with them quickly. (Only if Scratch would work on iPads…)
This year we are going to put all our student and teacher work on the main Scratch website. However, we are a K-6 school, and we do want some level of control of their online activities. So we have setup a group of school assigned user names for each student. Each student is assigned a username for use during the year. We will need to figure out what to do at the end of this year!
