Y5 Monday 21st March

Dear Year 5’s

I’m sorry I can’t be with you today, but it will be a good test of your independence as a class – make sure you use your most powerful resources: yourselves, your Growth Mindset and positive learning attitudes and each other – keep trying.

You have a choice of two challenges:

Challenge #1 – “Prezi perfection”

  • LQ:  How can I improve my Prezi?
  • Go to Prezi, log in and find your project
  • Use this last opportunity to make your Prezi amazing! – adding new content or Prezi features that help give information clearly and attractively.
  • See this previous post for more suggestions.

Challenge #2 – “Scratch mini tasks”

  • Go to Scratch – you can login if you like, but don’t need to – click on “create” to make a new project
  • We will be creating games next term so here are some mini tasks to get you warmed up.
  • Stick with the cat sprite with no background.

Work your way through these tasks

  1.  Gravity – put together:  When Green flag clicked, forever, change y by -1
    1. He should fall when you click the green flag
  2.  Gravity 2 – change your gravity block by adding:  if…then, < (in operators) , y position , 0
    1. He should fall until he gets to 0 height (the middle of the screen)
    2. Can you change the number so that he lands on the bottom of the screen?
  3. Jumping – start a new block with:  When space key pressed, change y by 50
  4. Walking
    1. click the “i” on the sprite, then change rotation style to the double arrow  <–>
    2. Make two new blocks:
      1. When left arrow key pressed, point in direction left, change x by -10
      2. When right arrow key pressed, point in direction right, change x by 10
  5. Random movement
    1. Create a new sprite – a ball
    2. Make this block: when flag clicked, point in direction, pick random 1 to 360 (in operators), forever, move 10 steps, if on edge bounce (only have the move inside the forever)
  6. A basic game!
    1. Add to the cat script: when green flag clicked, forever, if…then , touching ball, say “Ouch” for 1 second
    2. Play your game and see if you can avoid the ball!
    3. How could you make it easier or harder?  Try out your ideas
  7. Mouse control
    1. You could make it a 2-player game by controlling the ball with the mouse:
    2. Change the ball script to: when flag clicked, forever, point towards sprite1, move 2 step
    3. Play with a partner!