Y3: How do I create a bar chart in j2e5?

May 082017
 

Rivers

  • Finish your rivers poster
    • Make sure it is spaced equally

Mountains

  • Create another poster about the tallest mountains on each continent
  • Use the information here:  http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/li/List_of_mountains
  • Search for “seven summits map” to find a map of the world with these mountains marked on – add it to your poster
  • Add a title and some pictures

Famous Ships

  • Open this j2e page:  https://www.j2e.com/st-marks-wilts-sch-uk/Mr+W/Y3+Famous+ships+with+table/
  • Save
  •  Complete the table by putting in the lengths of the ships
  • Create a horizontal bar chart and make it the width of the page
  • Send the graph to the back by clicking ScreenHunter_80 May. 08 14.22
  • Make each ship the length of the bar on the bar chart.
  • Delete the bar chart
  • Line up the ships to make a bar chart of ships
  • Make the page into an attractive poster
    • add a title
    • could add a ship page border
    • don’t resize the ships!

Y4: How do I improve and share my Mind Mup?

May 052017
 
  1. Log into j2e
  2. Go to Google Drive and find your mind map from last week
  3. Continue with your mind map
  4. Right hand click – open with – Mind Mup 2.0 for Google Drive
  5. Click “trash”
  6. Click “share” and enter my email address
  7. Challenge:
    1. Try a MindMup
      1. Google Drive – New – More – MindMup 2,0
    2. Google Drawing
      1. Google Drive – New – Google Drawing

Success steps

  • share by entering an email
  • recall ideas from topic;
  • classify ideas;
  • understand branch structure/rules of mindmaps;
  • insert pictures
  • explore new software with curiosity and positivity;
  • load blog.

Y3 How can I create a bar chart in j2e5?

May 032017
 
  1. Start a new j2e5 page
  2. Make a new table with 1 column and 10 rows
  3. Visit this website to find out the longest rivers in the world and their lengths:  http://www.ducksters.com/geography/worldrivers.php
  4. Put the information in your table
  5.  Create a graph from your table by selecting it and clicking the graph button
  6. Add a picture of the world with the rivers labelled (in shared pictures)
  7. Add a title and make the page into an attractive poster – make things as big as possible to fill the page.

Y3 How do I create a graph in JIT?

Apr 242017
 
  • Watch the demo video on how to create a graph in JIT – graph.
  • Use the class survey results to make a graph.
  • Create a mix page to write about your graph.

Challenge

Next time – we will use this to draw scale drawings, eg of famous buildings or ships, animals or….

Y5 How do I create a platform game?

Mar 092017
 
  1. Log into Scratch and start a new project
  2. Set up gravity: use forever, change y by…
  3. Play to check that the cat falls
  4. But gravity only moves you if you are in the air,…
  5. Draw the ground on your background
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  7. You only want the cat to fall if is not touching the ground
  8. Use: if, not, touching colour… inside the forever loop
  9. Play to test it out and drop the cat in different places to check that it works.
  10. ** What happens if you put the cat under the ground?!  Why?
  11. Now add some floating levels of the same colour and test again
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  13. Add keyboard controls:
    1. Left/right: use when left key pressed; change x by
    2. Jump: use when space key pressed; change y by…
  14. Test your game
    1. What works well?
    2. Even better if…
    3. Can you think of solutions to you even better ifs?

Next level

  1. Where do you want your sprite to start?  Use the go to x _  y _ block when the green flag is pressed to start at the right place.
  2. Add an end place in a different colour to the platforms.
  3. Draw a new background.
  4. Use: forever, if, touching colour, next background
  5. Test your game.

Collect shapes

  1. Make a new sprite for the character to collect, eg star, banana…
  2. Place it where you want it to be.
  3. Only do one – when you have programmed it, you can duplicate more
  4. Use: when green flag pressed, show, forever, if, touching sprite, hide
  5. ** Create a variable called score
    1. set it to 0 at the beginning of the game
    2. make it add 1 every time you collect an item

Baddies

  1. Create a sprite for the character to avoid
  2. What will happen when you touch it? (Hide sprite and change background to “Game over”…)

Y6 How do I create the program to control traffic lights?

Mar 092017
 
  1. Log into scratch and start a new program
  2. Create a new sprite and draw a simple traffic light
  3. traffic light
  4. Duplicate the costume and fill in the lights in the correct sequence (as discussed in class)
  5. Program your traffic lights
  6. Get a car sprite and get it move left and right on your screen (you will need the if on edgebounce block)
  7. car move
  8. Click the left-right arrow in the sprite settings (so it doesn’t go upside down when going left)
  9. Can you change the car script so that it only moves when the traffic lights are green?
    1. Make a new variable (in data blocks) called “lights”
    2. In the traffic light code, make it change “lights” to “green”, “green+amber”, “red”, “amber”
    3. Make the car move only when lights are green (forever, if, lights = green, move)
  10. Get the Scratch cat to walk across the road, when the lights are on red.
  11. Use this crash code to stop the game if there is a crash:
  12. crash
  13. Can you add a pedestrian crossing button (a new sprite) so that when you press it, it turns the lights red?

Y4 How do I make a Scratch maze game?

Mar 062017
 
  1. Carry on following the instructions here: http://code-it.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/scratchcrabmaze.pdf
  2. Follow the instructions carefully.
  3. There re also more resources here:  http://code-it.co.uk/scratch/crabmaze
  1. Save
    1. Your file automatically saves if you are logged in
  2. Extra challenges (if you have finished the instructions)
    1. Make your game Egyptian themed, eg The tomb of the pharoah
    2. Add a title page at the beginning
    3. Add an instruction page
    4. Add “baddies”, eg Egyptian gods, that chase you in the maze
    5. Make it a two player game
    6. Add music
    7. Add a (animated) game over page, eg your character spins and shrinks
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