Scratch Animations
Lesson 1: Scenes and Setting (inspired by Mary Jo Maichack)
Objectives:
To learn how to use our voices, and to practice using and recording our voices.
Activator: To listen to a story told by Donna Washington. While listening, pay attention to how she uses her voice.
Mini Lesson:
Discuss the way the storyteller uses her voice.
Read: The Ant and the Dove
Scratch Lesson: Recording your voice. Naming recordings and programming with sound. Difference between "Play Sound", and "Play Sound Until Done."
Student Engagement:
In pairs, students record themselves telling the story. This should be finished today.
Wrap-up: Save your work.
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Lesson 2: Fixed Fairy Tales
Objective: To look at some classic fairy tales, and see how they have been altered. To analyze and discuss the meanings of the story. How did the characters change from beginning to end?
Activator: Listen to your recorded stories.
Mini Lesson:
Watch first Fixed Fairy Tales.
Discuss how the fairy tale is altered from the original
Student Engagement:
Watch more Fixed Fairy Tales.
Turn and Talk: What is the given moral? What is the real moral of the story?
Wrap-up: Put composition books in their spot.
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Lesson 3: Using Our Voices
Objectives:
To learn how to record sound in Scratch.
To think about how to use our voices.
Activator:
What are some cartoon characters with memorable voices?
Mini Lesson:
The Making of Toy Story 3
How to record your voice in Scratch
Teacher tells The Fox and the Grapes
Student Engagement: Students practice telling the Fox and the Grapes. (Students should correct for volume and expression. Extra credit for appropriate sound effects and vocalizations!)
Then students record and listen to their version of The Fox and the Grapes.
Wrap-up: Save and sign out.
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Lesson 4: Using Make a Block
Objectives: To discuss the moral of a story. To review how to make a block in scratch, and use it to animate a sprite. To learn about parallelism.
Activator: Listen to your recorded stories.
Mini Lesson:
Watch The Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein
Discuss the story we just watched.
Uses of Make a block in Scratch
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/99065056/#editor
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/10015060/#editor
What is parallelism?
Student Engagement: Try to program the missing piece to roll.
Wrap-up: Save your work.
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Lesson 5: The Shape of Stories
Objectives:
To learn about the shape of a story.
To write a story with a clear beginning, middle and end.
To learn how to expand a story.
Activator: Kurt Vonnegut Video: Beginning, middle and end
Mini Lesson:
Discuss Vonnegut's ideas.
Fold an origami storyteller.
Itsy Bitsy Spider.
Pourquoi Tales: Example
Student Engagement:
Write four basic parts of the story on the outside.
Expand the story by adding details on the inside.
Wrap-up: Save and sign out.
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Lesson 6: Some useful Programming for your Stories
Objectives:
To learn some programming that will be useful in your stories. (Switch backdrop and wait, broadcast)
The importance of keeping your work organized: NAME YOUR SPRITES
Activator: What are some of your biggest challenges in your project so far?
Mini Lesson:
Switch backdrop and wait.
broadcast command
broadcast and wait
Student Engagement:
Work on your stories.
Wrap-up: Save your work.
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Lesson : Working on your Stories
Objectives:
To create a story animation in Scratch with a beginning, middle and end. (see Rubric)
Activator: Look at student work?
Mini Lesson:
Individual review of any of the programming lessons as needed.
Student Engagement:
Work on your stories.
Wrap-up: Save your work....and save a copy too!
_________________________________________________________________________
links: Aesop's Fables: written
Linda Gorham: a pourquoi tale: Why Ostrich Walks on the Ground: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdHsxRAAbj4
Motown Little Red: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7sCeCBfFc0
Bill Harley: The Ballad of Dirty Joe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB0Wm7CsDv0 (poetry, original tale)
Donna Washington Red Red Lips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roGcGfUAe6k
Bill Gordh: The Three Bill Goats Gruff: https://vimeo.com/99638175 (almost 10 minutes long, but with banjo)
Tom McCabe stories
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Voice Recording Tips
When recording:
Be organized:
When programming:
Know the difference between "Play sound" and "Play Sound Until Done"
Objectives:
To learn how to use our voices, and to practice using and recording our voices.
Activator: To listen to a story told by Donna Washington. While listening, pay attention to how she uses her voice.
Mini Lesson:
Discuss the way the storyteller uses her voice.
Read: The Ant and the Dove
Scratch Lesson: Recording your voice. Naming recordings and programming with sound. Difference between "Play Sound", and "Play Sound Until Done."
Student Engagement:
In pairs, students record themselves telling the story. This should be finished today.
Wrap-up: Save your work.
______________________________________________________________
Lesson 2: Fixed Fairy Tales
Objective: To look at some classic fairy tales, and see how they have been altered. To analyze and discuss the meanings of the story. How did the characters change from beginning to end?
Activator: Listen to your recorded stories.
Mini Lesson:
Watch first Fixed Fairy Tales.
Discuss how the fairy tale is altered from the original
Student Engagement:
Watch more Fixed Fairy Tales.
Turn and Talk: What is the given moral? What is the real moral of the story?
Wrap-up: Put composition books in their spot.
__________________________________________________________________
Lesson 3: Using Our Voices
Objectives:
To learn how to record sound in Scratch.
To think about how to use our voices.
Activator:
What are some cartoon characters with memorable voices?
Mini Lesson:
The Making of Toy Story 3
How to record your voice in Scratch
Teacher tells The Fox and the Grapes
Student Engagement: Students practice telling the Fox and the Grapes. (Students should correct for volume and expression. Extra credit for appropriate sound effects and vocalizations!)
Then students record and listen to their version of The Fox and the Grapes.
Wrap-up: Save and sign out.
______________________________________________________________
Lesson 4: Using Make a Block
Objectives: To discuss the moral of a story. To review how to make a block in scratch, and use it to animate a sprite. To learn about parallelism.
Activator: Listen to your recorded stories.
Mini Lesson:
Watch The Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein
Discuss the story we just watched.
Uses of Make a block in Scratch
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/99065056/#editor
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/10015060/#editor
What is parallelism?
Student Engagement: Try to program the missing piece to roll.
Wrap-up: Save your work.
______________________________________________________________
Lesson 5: The Shape of Stories
Objectives:
To learn about the shape of a story.
To write a story with a clear beginning, middle and end.
To learn how to expand a story.
Activator: Kurt Vonnegut Video: Beginning, middle and end
Mini Lesson:
Discuss Vonnegut's ideas.
Fold an origami storyteller.
Itsy Bitsy Spider.
Pourquoi Tales: Example
Student Engagement:
Write four basic parts of the story on the outside.
Expand the story by adding details on the inside.
Wrap-up: Save and sign out.
______________________________________________________
Lesson 6: Some useful Programming for your Stories
Objectives:
To learn some programming that will be useful in your stories. (Switch backdrop and wait, broadcast)
The importance of keeping your work organized: NAME YOUR SPRITES
Activator: What are some of your biggest challenges in your project so far?
Mini Lesson:
Switch backdrop and wait.
broadcast command
broadcast and wait
Student Engagement:
Work on your stories.
Wrap-up: Save your work.
_________________________________________________________________________
Lesson : Working on your Stories
Objectives:
To create a story animation in Scratch with a beginning, middle and end. (see Rubric)
Activator: Look at student work?
Mini Lesson:
Individual review of any of the programming lessons as needed.
Student Engagement:
Work on your stories.
Wrap-up: Save your work....and save a copy too!
_________________________________________________________________________
links: Aesop's Fables: written
Linda Gorham: a pourquoi tale: Why Ostrich Walks on the Ground: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdHsxRAAbj4
Motown Little Red: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7sCeCBfFc0
Bill Harley: The Ballad of Dirty Joe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB0Wm7CsDv0 (poetry, original tale)
Donna Washington Red Red Lips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roGcGfUAe6k
Bill Gordh: The Three Bill Goats Gruff: https://vimeo.com/99638175 (almost 10 minutes long, but with banjo)
Tom McCabe stories
______
Voice Recording Tips
When recording:
- Enunciate
- Record in a quiet place
- Don't speak too loudly or softly (keep it in the zone.)
- Express emotion
Be organized:
- Name all of your recordings with a logical name
- Make backup copies of your work. (Save the recordings in your backpack
When programming:
Know the difference between "Play sound" and "Play Sound Until Done"