Scratch lesson 1

• Computing
• Lower Secondary (Key Stage 3)

Student Voice

Student Voice Questions Explained

Link

Click the link to complete the survey:

Student Survey Link

Do now - What shape
will be drawn?

Extension

https://www.keybr.com/

Do now activity should take 3 mins for students to answer after accessing lessonup. 

Extension task allows students to develop their typing skills which will be useful when we move to text based languages. 

Do Now answer

A rectangle will be drawn

Lesson objectives 

Conquer: Understand the concept of a sprite.

 

Aspire Higher: Utilise this understanding to manipulate sprites in scratch.

 

 

Aspire: Create a set of loops to make a program more efficient.

What is a sprite?

A sprite is an image or set of pixels that can be manipulated using code or code blocks.

• A sprite is traditionally the main playable character in a game.

Adding and deleting sprites 

Sprites

Sprites are used everywhere in gaming today and in some programs as representations of the user (YOU).

Over to you…

Click here for scratch

• Delete the cat sprite.
  
• Add a sprite of your choice.
  
• Add another sprite that will act as an obstacle.
  

Activity 

• Create you program so you can move your sprite when pressing the upper arrow key.
  
• The amount of steps it moves is up to you!
  

• Extension: can you find and add the code block that will rotate the sprite?
  

Create a maze for your sprite - 5 mins

Create a maze using the sprite designer. Make sure you have a path going from start to end. 

Add some collision

Finally to complete our minigame we are going to add some collision to our game so we cant go through the walls.

Save your game for next week.

What is a sprite?

1. A set of pixels controlled by the user.
2. A non player character
3. An image.
4. The code to move a character.

Which code moves the player forward?

1. 
2. 
3. 
4. 

Which color is used for movement code?

1. Orange
2. Red
3. Blue
4. Pink