Using SCRATCH to create Video Games and Animations
Using the programming script of SCRATCH students created different types of games and animations. This type of programming teaches students how to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively — essential skills for life in the 21st century.
They made an animation of a dance, joke, a race car game where the car had to follow the curser, their own version of a PacMan game and their own version of Asteroids or Space Invaders.
In each of the projects students drew their own sprites, wrote their own code and imported sounds from the internet.
For the dance students had to draw a sprite and animate it using different costumes. They also needed to add music.
Examples of Dances:
Dance 1
Dance 2
Dance 3
For the joke students had to draw the sprites and get the timing right on the jokes.
Tell a joke 1
Tell a joke 2
Tell joke 3
In PacMan students had to create the maze, draw the PacMan with at least two costumes, create a sensor so the sprite would not go through the walls of the maze and create a second level.
PacMan 1
PacMan 2
PacMan 3
For Space Invaders they had to draw several different types of sprites and write code for each of the sprites.
Space Invaders 1
Space Invaders 2
Asteroids 1
They made an animation of a dance, joke, a race car game where the car had to follow the curser, their own version of a PacMan game and their own version of Asteroids or Space Invaders.
In each of the projects students drew their own sprites, wrote their own code and imported sounds from the internet.
For the dance students had to draw a sprite and animate it using different costumes. They also needed to add music.
Examples of Dances:
Dance 1
Dance 2
Dance 3
For the joke students had to draw the sprites and get the timing right on the jokes.
Tell a joke 1
Tell a joke 2
Tell joke 3
In PacMan students had to create the maze, draw the PacMan with at least two costumes, create a sensor so the sprite would not go through the walls of the maze and create a second level.
PacMan 1
PacMan 2
PacMan 3
For Space Invaders they had to draw several different types of sprites and write code for each of the sprites.
Space Invaders 1
Space Invaders 2
Asteroids 1
Below I interviewed one of my students while he was working on his space invaders game.