Day 2 Lesson Plan: Art and Music with Scratch

This lesson plan is for the first day of Creative Computer Exploration with Scratch.

Objectives

• The students will move sprites using scripts

• The students will make music using scripts

• The students will use the pen and stamps to draw pictures on the stage

• The students will both draw costumes from scratch and use the parts distributed with Scratch

• The students will save a Scratch program for later use and review

Art and Music with Scratch

The lesson begins with a quick demonstration of two programs:

1. The Kaleidoscope program distributed with Scratch

2. Elephant Swirl, a new program

Kaleidoscope shows how to use the keyboard to move sprites around. Elephant Swirl shows how to trigger musical notes and how to use visual effects with sprites.

Discussion

Give the students a chance to ask questions about the demos.

• Announce that today we are going to work on art and music, since you often need both to create games

• Let students know that today we hope to save their work to come up with a class portfolio

• Encourage the students to open the interactive art Scratch demos and change them

Creating Musical Art Projects

The rest of the time will be a lab session directed towards creating something that uses the art and music techniques demonstrated earlier.

• Help each student start a project that is saved with their name in s:\scratch

• Encourage each student to write about what they are trying to do in the Project Notes area

At 20 minutes before the class ends, help students save their work.