Year 9 Scratch ITAP lesson

• Computing
• Lower Secondary (Key Stage 3)

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What could we add to our game?
(2 minutes)

Learning Objectives 

- Use broadcasts to alter scenes and game behaviour in Scratch.

- Implement working game features such as a health system in your game.

- Create multiple different game scenes within Scratch

Think (2 minutes): Why and how do we use different game scenes?

Pair (2 minutes): Why and how do we use different game scenes?

Share (2 minutes): One of you is the navigator your job is to tell the other person what to write, one is the pilot your job is to write your groups answers into LessonUp. Only one response from each pair.

Load up your scratch game from Lesson 1, if you were absent, or have any other issues raise your hands and I will deal with them issues. 

We will create 3 backgrounds for three game states, being played, game over and game survived. 

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Use broadcasts to set game states and change game scenes based 

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Create game states for survivng and fail conditions in our game.

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How do broadcats blocks work in Scratch?

1. Sends messages to all sprites and only those with matching when I recieve blocks respond
2. Broadcast blocks automatically trigger when the green flag is ticked
3. Broadcast blocks make sprites move in a specific direction based on the message
4. Broadcats blocks pause the entire game until a sprite resolves.

Share one important thing you learned today?

The area I found hardest today was.

Understanding broadcasts

Making backgrounds

Debugging problems

Independent working

The code along process