Y4 Scratch: How do I improve my Scratch game?

  • Open Scratch page, click file – upload from my computer – find your file
  • Use catch up cards and each other, but try to think for yourself first –  can you work it out?

So far we have done…

Use catch up cards if you need to do the following steps:

  • CAT
    • When left arrow pressed, turn left 15 degrees
    • When right arrow pressed, turn right 15 degrees
    • Forever move forward
    • Forever change costume – walking
  • BACKGROUND
    • Draw maze walls one colour
    • Draw start and finish places (could be text or picture)

Next steps

  • if cat hits the wall – stop (put this in the moving block)
  • make a coin sprite
    • show at the beginning
    • hide when sprite touches (forever checking)
    • make a variable called “score” (data blocks)
    • add one to score when sprite touches coin
  • Add another maze to the backgrounds
    • Get it to change background when you finish the maze

Y5 Scratch – LQ: What elements will my game have?

Success steps:

  • Explore a simple game
  • Decompose a game into its parts
  • Come up with an idea for a simple Tanzania game
  • Decompose the idea – using planning sheet
  • Identify Scratch command blocks that you will use
  • Refamiliarise yourself with Scatch program
  • Log in to class account
  • Understand safety considerations

 

  1. Platform game:  http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/18995992/
  2. Maze game:  http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/22804830/

 

 

Here is a list of example code you may want to use and adapt:

http://www.code-it.co.uk/scratch/primarygamesmaker/ScratchPrimaryGamesMaker.pdf

 

Primary games maker info and resources

http://code-it.co.uk/scratch/primarygamesmaker/primarygamesmakeroverview.html

 

Crab maze resources

http://code-it.co.uk/scratch/crabmaze.html

How fast does sound travel?

On Friday, a group of Year 5 and 6 children and I spent an hour outside doing some science.  Our question was “How fast does sound travel?”

We didn’t have any measuring equipment at all – we used only string, a bag of stones and a woodblock to work out the speed of sound!

Our final answer was 360 metres per second.  The actual speed of sound is 340 so we were very close considering we didn’t use any measuring tapes or stopwatches.  (We worked out we were between 5 an 10% out)

We were so busy that we forgot to take any photos – sorry!

How do you think we did it?