Scratch Jr.-Coding With Fairy Tales

In this course, we will learn the basics of using Scratch Jr. to recreate the Three Little Pigs. Students do not need to have any coding experience but should know how to work their device. Since this is for younger students, I highly advise the student having their zoom meeting on a computer and their project on a tablet that they can work on while still seeing the lesson. This will also allow them to show their work to the class as we go! 

Each class, the students will add to their animated story with new skills that they learn. Scratch Jr. is a visual block coding language that is perfect for prereaders. All of the blocks use images for their labels. Each of the five sessions is only 35 minutes long so that young students can stay engaged and focused the whole time. 

I will use screensharing to demonstrate the for the children and to guide their work.

Lesson 1: Introduction
-We will read the story of the 3 Little Pigs and talk about the parts of the story.
-The students will practice retelling the story by putting the pictures in sequence
-The students will be introduced to the Scratch Jr. App
-We will start a new project, learn how to add characters and backgrounds and make our characters move

Lesson 2: Creating/Editing Characters/Create Scenes
-Students will take this class time to add/create all the characters they will need to tell the story.
-We will use the sequencing pictures to help us create different scenes for our story and put all the characters in their correct scenes

Lesson 3: Animate our scenes
-Students will learn how to animate each scene

Lesson 4: Continue to Animate Scenes
-Students will finish animating their scenes
-Students will learn how to connect two scenes to be able to go back to a past scene for the wolf parts

Lesson 5 Finish Animating and Tell the Story!
-Students will learn how to use different events to make characters appear
-students will learn how to make objects and/or characters move in response to another character's code
-Students will finish their stories!