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