ANIMATE A NAME

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Overview

Animate a Name is a one-hour activity designed to be completed within 15-60 minutes. In this activity students use code to bring a name to life through animation, sound and music. It can be a nickname, the name of a favorite sports team, place, activity or anything else kids can think of.

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Examples

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Learning Objectives

“Animate a Name” will help kids get comfortable with coding. After completing this lesson, students will be able to:

• Be familiar with the Scratch block-based programming language.
• Learn important computer science concepts, like events, sequencing and loops.
• Create an animation project in Scratch

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Computer Science Topics Covered

• Control structures: Sections of code that order the direction or flow of how a program functions. Control structures include conditionals and loops.
• Debugging: The process of identifying and fixing error(s) in a program when it is not functioning as expected.

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Change Color

Code

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Grow and Shrink

Code

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Draw a Letter

Code

Spin

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Code

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Bounce

Code

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Wave

Code

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Bounce Everywhere

Code

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New Backdrop

Code

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Say Something

Code for Sprite-1

Code for Sprite-2

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Sprite Dance

Code

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Add Background Music

Code

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Play a Beat

Code