Scratch Level 4: Intermediate Games and Animations

In this class, students use Scratch to code their own interactive stories, animations, and games. In the process, they learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively. Each session we’ll create a new project in order to accomplish these goals, and students will learn how to use motion, looks, sound, events, control, message, sensing, and variable code blocks and will identify the function of cloning and conditional code.

Week 1: Wizard Tag project shows students how to create a shooting game
Week 2: Deep Dive project focuses on animation, story telling, changing scenes and backgrounds
Week 3: Baseball Game project combines animation with gaming as students simulate a real baseball game
Week 4: Flappy Bird project shows student how to create an obstacle game where players avoid obstacles to stay alive.

Scratch is a free, open-source platform for block coding created by software engineers from MIT. Students will create their free account and use it for the class. No additional materials are required. Students should complete Levels 1-3 classes (or equivalent with another teacher) before taking Level 4.