Head of Department at an Outstanding School. I was nominated as one of the top 50 teachers in the Global Teachers Prize. I am a Microsoft Innovative Expert Educator, a Microsoft Fellow and a Microsoft Certified Trainer working in a Google School. I received the Microsoft Award for innovation in ICT, Education Department Provincial Award for Best ICT Practice and Eduweek’s Best Classroom Practice.
Head of Department at an Outstanding School. I was nominated as one of the top 50 teachers in the Global Teachers Prize. I am a Microsoft Innovative Expert Educator, a Microsoft Fellow and a Microsoft Certified Trainer working in a Google School. I received the Microsoft Award for innovation in ICT, Education Department Provincial Award for Best ICT Practice and Eduweek’s Best Classroom Practice.
Scratch 1.4 Lesson 6 – co-ordinates, subroutines, variables and user input
This is a manual for the students to follow.
Very little input required from the teacher, as all instructions with pictures for assistance are included in this 12 page document.
Learning Objectives
You will understand how to:
Delete a sprite and import a new sprite
Draw using the pen feature of Scratch
Use the pen up and pen down feature
Change the colour of the pen
Set the position of the sprite using co-ordinates
Make a sprite appear and disappear using show and hide
Add variables to your program to change the direction of movement
Use the broadcast feature in Scratch to create subroutines
Use subroutines to saves code and make the program more efficient and
easier to edit
Enable user input to set the number of sides of each shape
Scratch 1.4 Lesson 4 – Monkey Game
This is a manual for the students to follow.
Very little input required from the teacher, as all instructions with pictures for assistance are included in this 8 page document.
Learning Objectives:
You will understand:
The following key terms – variable, operator, IF..Else…repeat until
How to give the user instructions at the beginning of the game
How to use broadcast to start the game
GREATER THAN and LESS THAN symbols
BOOLEAN LOGIC as it applies to combining conditions necessary for game
outcomes.
Combine different conditions using If…Else.. to govern the game outcome
How to animate a sprite using costumes
How to control the movement of a sprite using arrow keys
How to design a maze on the stage
How to make sprites interact with the background by using colours
The range of coordinates available on the stage in Scratch
How to make sprites start in a pre-set starting position using co-ordinates
How to make objects to disappear and reappear in a random position
Scratch 1.4 Lesson 5 - Creating Graphics
This is a manual for the students to follow.
Very little input required from the teacher, as all instructions with pictures for assistance are included in this 14 page document.
Learning Objectives
You will understand how to:
Delete a sprite and import a new sprite
Draw using the pen feature of scratch
Use the pen up and pen down feature
Change the colour of the pen
Set the position of the sprite using co-ordinates
Make a sprite appear and disappear using show and hide
Use the repeat function in Scratch
Use the broadcast feature in Scratch
Create simple subroutines
Using Scratch 1.4 Lesson 3 - Underwater Game
This is a manual for the students to follow.
Very little input required from the teacher, as all instructions with pictures for assistance are included in this 16 page document.
Learning Objectives
You will understand how to:
Import sprites
Edit costumes of sprites given in Scratch
Animate sprites using scripts
Control the movement of sprites using the arrow keys
Create scripts that move sprites around automatically
Create interaction between sprites
Use co-ordinates and random numbers to set start position of sprites
Use variables and scripts to allow scoring and countdown
Use backgrounds built into Scratch
Making autonomous sprites
This is a manual for the students to follow.
Very little input required from the teacher, as all instructions with pictures for assistance are included in this 16 page document.
Learning Objectives
You will understand how to:
Create a simple script that animates the sprite automatically
Create a script that allows the user to control the movement of the sprite using
the arrow keys
Combine the different scripts to work together on the same sprite
Make the sprite reverse direction
Edit the stage using the Paint Editor facility within Scratch
Make the sprite react to the background
Import a new sprite from the ones available within scratch
Create and edit new costumes for an existing sprite
Create a simple script that move the sprite automatically
Create variables to set the score and the countdown
Set a sprite to start in a certain position
Save your work
Lesson 2 – Pac Man Style Game
This is a manual for the students to follow.
Very little input required from the teacher, as all instructions with pictures for assistance are included in this 12 page document.
Learning Objectives
You will understand how to:
• Delete, resize and draw new sprites
• Draw new costumes and use them to animate a sprite
• Control the movement of a sprite using arrow keys
• Design a maze on the stage
• Make sprites interact with the background by using colours
• Make sprites start in a pre-set starting position using co-ordinates
• Make objects disappear and reappear in a random position
• Create variables to set up scoring in the game
• Make an autonomous sprite chase the sprite controlled by the player
ECDL Week 4
Complete ECDL week 4 video on how to teach ECDL.
The nice thing about this video is that your students can watch it and do the assignment.
You as a teacher are not involved in the actual teaching.
It gives you the freedom to assist other students if they need help!!
ECDL Week 2 Video
Complete ECDL week 2 video on how to teach ECDL.
The nice thing about this video is that your students can watch it and do the assignment.
You as a teacher are not involved in the actual teaching.
It gives you the freedom to assist other students if they need help!!