New Scratch Resource

The Scratch Team has launched a new Things to Try page with tutorials, activity cards, and educator guides at http://scratch.mit.edu/go/

There are nine different topics. The activities have much more scope than the original Scratch Cards. Each topic comes with a series of cards. So you can build on the learning. 

Take a look at Make Music 

Includes an Educators guide:

https://scratch.mit.edu/pdfs/guides/MusicGuide.pdf

A series of Activity Cards:

https://scratch.mit.edu/pdfs/cards/MusicCards.pdf

If you click on the tutorial link it will take you directly to Scratch and you can follow along while building your project.

I think the help feature is under used in Scratch. To find the help section click on the question mark to the right of the scripts area next click on all tips. You will see all the tutorials under "Step by Step". There is also a "How To" tab and a "Blocks" tab you can select.  

I'm planning to use this for Hour of Code on Monday.

Google Draw - Portrait Art Year 4 Students

 Year 4 Students - Stunning Self Portrait

Graphic Artist - Isabella Johnston-Nimmo

Shape Art by In Young Lee - Room 17

Pikachu

How many shapes makes a Pikachu?

ROYALTY FREE MUSIC by BENSOUND

Bensound website has a great collect of music and it is provided to schools for free under Creative Commons Licence. You can use for free my music licensed under the Creative Commons License in your multimedia project (online videos, websites, animations, etc.) as long as you credit me with a link to my Website. Examples of proper way to credit me: "Music: http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music or "Music: Song title - Bensound.com"

http://www.bensound.com/

Year 1 Students and Scratch Jr Projects

Assessment in Project-Based Learning

Assessment in Project-Based Learning 📈📊 (by @newtechnetwork) #edchat #education #engchat #elearning #edtech #pblchat pic.twitter.com/SFVcOBZkoy

— Alex Corbitt (@Alex_Corbitt) November 8, 2016

Can shapes make other shapes? - Abigail JESUDAS

Awesome maths patterns!

Catherine's Guessing Game

Try Catherine's Guessing Game

Click on the green flag to start and try and guess the number. 

To make this game we can use the concept of decomposition (breaking down the coding into parts). For the guessing game we have to think about 3 conditions; one your guess is to high, two your guess is too low and three you guess is correct.

We used two main control blocks the forever block and the if      then block. We use three operators greater than (<), less than (>) and equal (=). 

- See the code at the bottom of the post.

     

Hatsune Miku https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsune_Miku

I liked the way Catherine used these images in her game. I thought they were funny and added to the visual appeal of her game. See below: 

I did some research and found out the name of this character. When creating projects always make sure you give credit to the owner of the original content such as the artist. Be careful not to use content that may be under copyright laws. It is best to use your own images or one that are part of the Creative Commons. https://creativecommons.org/about/

Hatsune Miku https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsune_Miku

Catherine's Code:

Katie's Digital Dice Project

Ojas - Makes Squares from Squares

Room 17 are using Google Draw to do a mathematical investigation.

Can regular shapes combine to make other regular shapes?

Ojas has made squares from squares. His squares are special because each square is made up of 5 squares. When you add up all of the squares you get a pattern or sequence. Starting with 5 then 20, 45 and so on. 125 is the 5th block in this sequence. Can you work out what the 4th block would be? Put you answer in the comments below. 

Scratch Project by Adrian

Halloween Wishes made with Scratch

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/128396584/

Thanks Adrian

Te One's Dice Project

Room 20 

Featured Project Week 4

Digital Dice

Try Te One's Digital Dice 

Concepts 

Logic and Patterns

Approaches

Tinkering and Persevering

Learning Intentions

Recognise the patterns in the coding and using similarities to develop and extend the code to making an electron dice that would only throw 1 or 2 to throw 1 to 6. Preserve and Experiment via trial and error to establish a working code. 

   Featured Project Week 4

Te One's code was adapted from the original two sided dice. He has worked out how to repeat the coding pattern and make it work. This was not the code I expected students to come up with. I didn't think using the if else condition would work for this project. Te One proved me wrong. This solution is logical and perfectly workable. I would not normally use if else unless I was handling only to conditions such as 1 and 2. In other projects students replaced the if else with a single if condition and repeated it 6 times with a forever block.            

Can shapes make other shapes? Year 2 Google Draw Project

Can shapes make other shapes? - Elena DREW