Introduction to programming with Light Bot

Introduction to Stratch

Sprites

The Stage

Getting started guide

Reference guide

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Scratch Cards

To learn some of the most common common commands and operations in Scratch, work your way through the following Scratch cards in order. Follow the instructions to 'Get Ready', adding the sprites and sounds you need, then write the code for the sprite and test it.

Change Colour
Move to a beat
Key moves
Say something
Glide
Follow the mouse
Dance twist
Interactive whirl
Animate it
Moving animation
Surprise button
Keep score

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Scratch Games

Helicopter game

Fish

Pong

Cannon

a game that will help you create levels - have a look at this to help you put more levels into one of your games.

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LearnScratch.org

LearnScratch.org is a site that has several videos to help you learn to use scratch and create different types of game and animation.

For example there are eight videos here that show you the main code blocks and give ideas on how to use each block.

Watch two videos here from two different categories - animation, drawing, games, interactive art, maths, music and simulation - and reproduce the code shown in the video.

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Task

Now that you have learned the basics of Scratch and have created 2 simple games, you now have to design your own Scratch game. You should use the techniques from the Scratch cards to give you some ideas. You may use the backgrounds, sprites and sounds included in Sprite or create your own.

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Project Gallery

Go to http://scratch.mit.edu/channel/featured and browse through the projects submitted by other students.

Go to http://scratch.mit.edu/signup and register for an account on Scratch. You can then upload your completed task to this site and share your ideas with other people.

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Homework Exercise 1

Homework Exercise 2

Homework Exercise 3

Homework Exercise 4