The children had to create a Pac-Man type character as part of a Fís Film we were making. This was a perfect opportunity to use Scratch Coding.
In the first scene the Pac-Man appears on the classroom whiteboard and moves across the screen. The children drew a new sprite Pac-Man 1 using Scratch.
They then created a second costume for this sprite.
It was now time for a bit of scratch coding to create the animation.
The Pac-Man eats a decimal point while the “teacher” is explaining decimals. The children drew a new sprite – A decimal number.
They then created a second costume with the decimal point gone.
There were a couple of ways the children could code this part. One way was to use a wait block
Now we just had to play the programme on classroom whiteboard while the children acted out their parts. Lets have a look at the finished scene.
Scratch is free to download. The Scratch Offline Editor can be downloaded here.
https://uploads.scratch.mit.edu/scratch2download/