This week, my college students will placed on their programming hats and have a bit enjoyable coding in Scratch. They are going to be deciding on a personality from a narrative we’ve learn, akin to Les lunettes de Lucette and Alain et Denis font du tenting, and finishing the Characterization mini unit in CS First. (Sadly, this mini unit is at present solely accessible in English and Spanish however we’ll ultimately transfer on to the longer Storytelling unit which is disponible en français! On the very least, college students can change the language in Scratch to French.) The duty can be barely totally different from that which is printed within the CS First unit however the ideas demonstrated within the movies and add-ons can be fairly helpful. The duty entails selecting a personality from the story and discovering a sprite that resembles the character. I’ll present them easy methods to edit the sprite to look a bit extra just like the precise character, akin to altering the hair color, for instance. College students will then add speech bubbles, thought bubbles and motion, in addition to audio recordings to accompany the speech bubbles. Right here is an instance I rapidly threw collectively, that includes Pierrette le chat from Les lunettes de Lucette:
Following this exercise, college students will start to work on the Storytelling unit to code their very own story or chapter about what occurs subsequent within the e-book they’ve learn.
In case you have tried both of those items along with your college students, I might love to listen to the way it went. Remark under with any insights and suggestions, s’il vous plaît et merci! 😃