Y4 LF Hyperlinked pages in Scratch

Video tutorial

1. Click here: Page links then click “See inside”
2.  Making the hyperlinks:
   1. Click on “Stage” then “Backdrops” to see the different pages
   2. Click on “sprite 1” then “Code”
   3. Add these blocks:
      1. Events: When this sprite clicked
      2. Looks: Switch backdrop to
      3. Change the backdrop to “next backdrop”
3. Testing the link – click on Go to next page
4. Now create the previous page links in the same way.
5. You could also have the page numbers at the bottom so you can skip to any page.
6. Can you make a button with shapes and text?

Video tutorial 2 – Making page links and hiding links

Video tutorial 3 – Show what page we’re on

Next steps – now we are ready to start designing our eBook.

1. Plan the content:
   1. Title page
   2. What’s on each page
2. Create pages by editing each backdrop
3. Add more pages – you will then need  more page number sprites with the code (you can just duplicate ones you already have and change their costumes, edit the code)

More to think about

• HTML is the language that is used to make webpages.  Click on this link to see how links work in HTML : HTML links
• Make a simple adventure game by creating pages with doors which are links to a new page.  It could be a maze…