Game Design - Lesson 1

Your tasks for this lesson!

1.  Go to Learning Computing website – Year 7 – Game design – Lessons 1 -3.  

2.  You need to work through Activity 1 – Tasks 1 and 2.  For Task 1, you need to create a username.  This must not be your real name and you should use your Chrome password for the Scratch Account.  You need to write your username in your planner where you can find it again.  If you forget it, you cannot continue with your previous work as there is no means of getting into the account without it!  You will be asked to provide a parent email – this must be your own school email address.

3.  After doing both tasks in Activity 1, you need to do Activity 2 – read through Tutorial 1 (do not watch video) and then apply the skills shown in the tutorial to a new Scratch project to get a sprite to move using keyboard arrow keys.

4. Your work to be screenshotted (hold Ctrl key and overlapping rectangles button in top row, then click ‘Copy to clipboard’ in bottom right of screen).  Paste the screenshot to a Google doc.  Under screenshot, explain what the different program blocks do.  

5.  Share your Google doc - click Advanced and then Anyone with the link and copy/paste the link to a new blog post titled ‘Scratch lesson 1'.

6.  Save your Scratch project as 'Lesson 1 - Activity 2'

Silver/Gold - have a go at Activity 3 tasks.  This is a new Scratch project. Work to be screenshotted under the work from Activity 2 and explain what the blocks do.  Save your Scratch project as 'Lesson 1 - Activity 3'

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