Scratchers Storytellers – SCOPES-DF
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Lesson Details

Subjects*
Computer Programming
Age Ranges*
8-11
Fab Tools*
computer, Programming, Game Development, Animation Design, Scratch.mit.edu, Scratch software
Standards
Fab-Programming.1, Fab-Design.1
Author
Studio 5
Additional Contributors
Ilaria La Manna, Mohammed Mohammed

Author

Studio 5
Studio 5
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In line with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology’s Digital Youth Strategy, STUDIO 5 is mainly aimed at nurturing youth as digital learners by sharpening their 21st century learning skills, as they develop in an all-pervasive digital environment. In… Read More

Summary

In this workshop, participants are going to learn about storytelling using scratch, scratch combines creativity and block coding empowering the participants with the needed skills to create their experience of the past two days and represent it as an animated story that has multiple scenes and conversations between characters of their choice.

What You'll Need

1.      Presentation

2.      Computer

3.      internet access

4.      Scratch platform

5.     Results video

Lesson Materials

The Instructions

Presentation:

Presentation:

1- Who are we and what we do in Studio 56.

2- Which zone we will be in today.

3- Introduce the Client letter of the workshop.

4- What is Storytelling?

•Show a video that explains what is storytelling.

 

•Discuss with the participants the video and the definition of storytelling.

5- What is the importance of storytelling?

•Show a video that explains the importance of storytelling.

•Discuss the importance of storytelling with the participants.

6- Open Question: Tell us a story you like.

•Give a participant 1-2 min to tell us a story they like.

7- Explain Scratch platform and see if any participant used it before.

8- Show a video about scratch platform.

9- What are we going to develop?.

•Explain the storytelling idea.

Interface:

1- Explain Scratch platform and how to use it.

2- Create the first scene with the participants.

3- Give participants time to create several scenes and design them.

4- Show participants how to add several sprites to the project and choose an avatar.

5- give participant time to add the number of characters they want for their story.

App Functionality:

1- Explain how to move from one scene to another and code it.

2- Explain how to hide and show characters depending on scenes that are being changed.

3- Explain how to control sprites to wait until certain amount of time.