Ninja Instructions | Mentor Notes

The last mastery activity asked you to focus on a nursery rhyme. In this activity you can follow the exact same set of guidelines, but you can animate a scene from your favorite TV show or movie. Or if you prefer, a scene from your favorite book. It's all about the power of using Scratch to allow you to be creative! To get some ideas you can check out:

• Our dojo's studio:
  • http://scratch.mit.edu/studios/955952/

60-90 minutes

Create a brand new story (not a remix this time) that:

• Uses at least three different sprites where at least one of those sprites is someting you found on the Internet (not a pre-loaded image from Scratch)
• Use blocks from a minimu of five of the six sub-menus:
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 
• Sequence several “actions” to “show” a scene from a book, TV show, movie, etc. when the green flag is pressed.
• We strongly encourage you to use at least three of the following:
  • Recording your own sounds
  • The use of multiple costumes/backdrops
  • Incorporate something unique to you, your school, etc. (why not use a picture of you in your story?)
  • Use broadcast messages to synchronize your story

• What are you most proud of in this program? Why?
• What did you get stuck on? How did you get unstuck?
• What might you want to add to this next?

The studio for this activity is located at:

• http://scratch.mit.edu/studios/955952/

This project is based on materials from Dr. Ben Schafer at the University of Northern Iowa.