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.
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 from the Scratch booklet.
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: