1. M Y S CRATCH D EMONSTRATION Rita Coulon

2. S TORY T ELLING This lesson could be used to: Practice writing skills or to s ummarize learning objectives and many other ideas too.

3. M Y P ROJECT IS D ESIGNED TO : Demonstrate Scratch: Basics Programming tidbits Possible Projects I Intend to share what I have learned with Content Area Teachers at my school.

4. S ESSION I Introduce Scratch Vocabulary Navigate Scratch Program View Sample Projects Create a simple Scratch file

5. S ESSION II Practice with Scratch and explore all the possibilities of the new concepts learned Create a simple Scratch project. Share experiences with participants

6. P RACTICE P ROJECT The first project for teachers is to create their own short story or poem by making the text switch randomly from pre-typed lines.

7. S ETTING THE S TAGE The Stage needs to be customized to fit the story being told. Click the backgrounds tab Then click Edit You may now import a picture to the stage. Type your title and tagline. “Remember this will not change when the program is running”

8. T HE S PRITES Now we must create 5 sprites with 5 costumes These lines will be used to tell the story later randomly.

9. S CRIPTS U SED Scripts used Control Menu – When key pressed Looks Menu Switch to continue Operators Menu Pick random Note: The script has to be placed on each sprite for this to work properly.

10. T HANK YOU Once you are finished simply press the space bar to see your story in action. Don’t forget to save often Thank you for learning something new…

11. S CRATCH R ESOURCES http://scratched.media.mit.edu/ http://learnscratch.org/ http://scratch.redware.com/lessonplan