Lesson 10: Animated Names, Create a Story and Chasing Game (Scratch)

30/04/21

During this lesson we have seen how to customize Scratch elements to adapt our animations to the lessons we are preparing. In Scratch you can customise several elements and the webpage also provides tutorials to get the most out of the program. 

 
Backdrops:  are the background images for your animation. The webpage offers a wide and free range of options but, once again, you can upload your own backgrounds from your computer or draw your own. Sprites: are the characters the webpage offers for you to animate. There is a wide variety of them completely for free: animals, people, objects, etc. When you have chosen your sprite you can change its color pattern and its movements. It is worth mentioning that the webpage also offers the option of drawing and uploading your own sprites, thus multiplying the customization options.
 

The first tool is to Animate names letting students customise their own names and make a fun animation with it such as changing the color of the letters, the way they moved, the sounds they made and the background, etc. Here's an example of it I recreated on my own:

 

Later we learned how to make our own Animated story, with characters that speak to each other and have a dialogue. Through making different scenes, with changes of backdrop and costume. Here's my own version: 

 

 

And finally we understood how to make a Chasing game. Where we can move the main sprit through the keyboard, which in this case it is a robot, and it has the funciton to catch the star, and every time it touches, we will earn a point.