Lesson 3.

OPEN YOUR LEARNING BLOG

In  this lesson we are going to finalise your ideas for your Scratch project.  Write an introduction which outlines what your program is going to do and what should appear in your report.

STARTER

Go to the move to a beat Scratch Card and make the sprite move to a beat:

http://info.scratch.mit.edu/sites/infoscratch.media.mit.edu/docs/02_movetoabeat_v14.pdf

When you have done this try practising the key directional moves:

http://info.scratch.mit.edu/sites/infoscratch.media.mit.edu/docs/03_keymoves_v14.pdf

LEARNING OUTCOMES

You will learn to:

identify  user requirements for your project

Write an introduction to your report

Understand how the sprite moves.

USER REQUIREMENTS

In the last lesson I produced an algorithm for an Apple game.  These are the use requirements:

The background should be a desert scene.

Magical red apples fall from the sky when the game starts

The Sprite shall be a desert explorer who will try to capture the apples in his hat

For every apple which is caught the score will increase by 1

When 21points have been awarded the game shall end

A screen saying game over should appear for 5 seconds

The Sprite should then appear and show a speech able asking the user to play again.

As you can see I have thought carefully about what I want my game to do.  It is not too complicated and should give me plenty of scope to write some useful code and then explain it in my report.

TASK 1

Open a Google Doc and call it 'Scratch Project'.   On the first page put the following headings:

INTRODUCTION

USER REQUIREMENTS

Under the heading USER REQUIREMENTS write the user requirements for your program.

CLASS ACTIVITY

What is wrong with the following introduction?

INTRODUCTION

"My game is about apples falling from the sky"

Your teacher will explain what should appear in an introduction.  Remember your are describing your project and how you are going to make it.  You are also introducing the reader to what they are going to find in the report.

TASK 2 

Now write an informative introduction.

FINAL TASK FOR TODAY'S LESSON

In your learning blog write down three things that you have learnt today.