Willie, Henry & Justin's SCRATCH Jump Scare Learning Story - Sept 2015

Learner: Henry, Willie & Justin                                                    Learning Coach :DWilkes      Date:  Sept 2015- Week 8-10                                                      Learning Area: Technology

Learning Observed

For the past few weeks the learners have been engaged in an innovation station!  The learners were given the choice of 4 provocations which included: creating an Ormibot from scratch, designing an object in Tinkercad to print in the 3D printer, designing a Science experiment or designing a series of code using Scratch and Makey Makey each of which would develop their capabilities.  Henry, Justin and Willie enjoyed the first week of ‘discovery learning’ where they had some choices of tasks to complete to help them get familiar with the coding programme ‘Scratch’ and the extension kit ‘Makey Makey’ and make connections to their prior knowledge.  They watched tutorials, tried out their predictions and played around with the various affordances of the equipment and programme.  They used the Makey Makey and Scratch to create a game console successfully.  Henry also supported other learners with using the Makey Makey- great collaboration and leadership.  For Week 9 and 10 the boys worked collaboratively to design and create a jump scare game using the Scratch programme.  In order to piece together the code successfully there was a lot of trialling and prototyping which showed the tenacity and resilience of Willie, Justin and Henry.  They showed their curiosity, thinking and managing self skills by looking at what others had done and making connections to what they wanted to achieve.  See their game here.  Willie even wrote a blog post about it already!

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

add another few levels to the game or create another, more complicated game add more code to the game and share it on the LH1 website and/or teach another learner how to code using Scratch complete your design plan more neatly show the game to your family at home (BOO!) use Makey Makey to extend the game