Graded Programming Activity
Make your own Animation

During the lessons for this week you practiced using building blocks from the Motion menu, portions of the looks, as well as the when green flag pressed, wait, and repeat blocks to cause the sprite to move around the stage. For this activity you will combine these pieces and add some new elements to create your own, slightly longer, animation.

This activity isn't as complicated or involved as some of the ones that will follow. It is really intended to get you used to Scratch and to have you practice the whole programming process. 

To help you understand what I am looking for here is a simple instructional video:

• https://www.youtube.com/embed/JMyt_A0kVkU

This assignment IS NOT being graded. It is done as a practice for the first graded program. However, if I were grading it I would use the following rubric.

To earn a 3

• Named Std_P2
• "Runs" when the green flag is pressed.
• Moves the character (the default cat sprite is absolutely sufficient although you MAY choose any sprite you like) around the screen in a sequence of moves.
• Consist of at least three different, animations, one right after the other.
  • In my video above I have four
  • These animations should be things that you produce from several blocks each. 
    • Using the "glide" block is NOT sufficient to meet this requirement
• Contain at least one animation that is "new" and not simply one of the ones we covered in the lesson.
  • In my video above the first part (left to right) is exactly what we did in the lesson videos.
  • But each of the other three combined movement left/right with movement forward/backwards (size).
  • Even one of those three would have been sufficient for this requirement.
• Pass the "places everyone" test. That is no matter when the green flag is pressed your program should run correctly. This includes even if someone presses the green flag in the middle of the program executing (when the cat is upside down and backwards maybe).

That's it. Those are the simple, minimum requirements. You are free to go beyond this in any way you please, but it should be clear to an observer that you have fulfilled these requirements.

To earn a 4

To earn a 4 on this activity you must do something that makes me say "wow" or "cool." The main idea is that to "exceed expectations" you have to show me something that convinces me you "get it" and are trying to be creative and explore with Scratch.

I realize that is vague and hard to pin-point in a rubric.  But, on the other hand, if your program was a fast/simple copy and modification of what we did in the lesson videos than you know you weren't pushing yourself to explore.  Those tend to be fairly easy to recognize from the teacher's perspective.

Suggestions

In reality this probably sounds easier than it actually is. I would suggest that before you start programming that you get out a piece of paper and plan out your program. Think about the coordinates of the stage (-240 to +240 for width, -180 to +180 for height) and how/where the sprite will be as you animate it over the stage. Think about the movement from position position and the math that is part of that. Your program doesn't have to be mathematically perfect. But its likely helps to think about the math to understand what you are doing.

Sharing your Code

• Share your program publicly on the scratch website by clicking on the share button in the center of the program creation screen.
  

• Navigate to the studio for this project - https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/25956489

• Select the "Browse Projects" button in the middle right of the page under the "Add Projects" header.
  

• A list of all of your "shared" programs will pop up in the middle of the screen. Select the assignment that you just completed.