Dancing Sprites

Learning Intentions

Learn how to animate a sprite
Learn how to add sounds to Scratch

Success Criteria

I can make a sprite move
I can make a sprite rotate
I can add a sound to Scratch

What you will be learning

In this lesson you will be getting your sprites to perform a dance. Your teacher will give you headphones so that you can listen to your animation as you test it.

Headphones icons created by Freepik - Flaticon

Animation

An animation is when we make an image (such as our character) look as though it is moving.
With Scratch, we can do this with the move blocks or we can change the sprite's costume.

A dancing animation

Looping

In computer science, a loop is a piece of code that repeats something over and over.
A loop can last forever or it can be for a specified number of times.

Practice

How many times will this loop?

0 times

10 times

Infinite times

Practice

How many times will this loop?

0 times

10 times

Infinite times

Practice

How many times will this sprite change costumes?

3 times

10 times

30 times

Infinite times

Work through Lesson 3.

Make your dance enjoyable to watch and use sounds to make it more interesting.

Task

Presentation Overview

In this lesson pupils will learn about animation in computer science. They will create their own animation in Scratch using several tools including:

Movement
Rotation

Dancing Sprites

13:10 | 15-05-2025

Keywords

DragonDocs Management

Random selector

Remove after pick

Sections

Binary conversion

Denary to binary conversion

Binary to denary conversion

Use two's complement

Slideshow Outline

Help

The following are key shortcuts for using DragonSlides and reveal.js.

Key combination	Action
→, PAGE DOWN, SPACE	Next slide
←, PAGE UP	Previous slide
SHIFT + →	Last Slide
SHIFT + ←	First slide
B	Whiteboard
W	Widget Board/White Screen
C	Toggle Notes Canvas
DEL	Clears Whiteboard/Notes Canvas
S	Show Presenter Mode
SHIFT + D	Toggle Dark Mode
H	Goes to the Home Slide
META + P	Show Print options window

In order to use the 'Start Remote' feature, you'll need to download JB Slide Controls from the Apple App Store. Once you have this you'll be able to control the slides using the app from you Apple Watch.

Feedback 👍

Accessibility

Apply a filter:

Apply theme

Blue theme

White theme

More effects:

Dark Mode

Bold Text

Slide Zoom

All slideshow files