In this lesson, student teams will explain how they plan on recreating/reverse engineering the Scratch project seen in Lesson 14. The other teams will listen, identifying similarities and differences between the two teams and their own ideas for arriving at a possible solution. Then, students will work in teams to rebuild the project they viewed in the previous lesson.

Animate a Name with Scratch. With this 1 hour activity, you can try the Tutorial, download a set of Coding Cards, or view the Educator Guide. Resources available in over 60 languages.

Students follow a tutorial to create a Scratch program that uses stamping, colors, loops, and events to create a compelling visual program.
Students experiment with using Scratch’s system of numbered colors and with using the stamp block to stamp images of the sprite on the stage.
Students experience the need for code to initialize their program when it starts, and they will write code to do that.
By the end of the lesson, students will have created an interactive, colorful program that responds to the mouse pointer.
Scratch’s color effects, stamping, and sprite movement will be important in the final coding project at the end of the unit.

Students follow the instructor’s tutorial to make animal sprites move across the screen in wild patterns. This requires using Scratch’s coordinates system to control the x and y coordinates of the sprites.
Students encounter the coordinate plane background, and try out their knowledge by identifying areas of the screen using only coordinate numbers.
Sprite movement using coordinates will be central to the final coding project at the end of the unit.

Students will explore the various types of loops available in Scratch, by creating musical programs.
The instructor presents a Scratch project with examples of short music loop scripts. Students examine the different types of loops used, and then build their own songs using the same kinds of loops and sounds.
Students reflect on why programmers use loops and the benefits they offer.
Loops— particularly nested loops—will be important in their final coding project at the end of the unit.

An activity using variables and conditionals in Scratch to create an interactive game