Experience CS

Lesson 2

Pattern playground

In this lesson, students learn how to create a transformation in Scratch. They begin by examining examples of Pop Art by Andy Warhol, and discuss how he used translation in his work. From there, they create a unique translation in Scratch using Looks and Motion commands, writing a program in the Code Editor. Students are then introduced to functions and how they can be used to remove unnecessary commands from a program. They return to their programs and create two functions: one to translate their shape left and right, and the other to translate it up and down. To conclude the lesson, they compare their Scratch project to Andy Warhol’s artwork.

school

Grade 8

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Subject Math, Art

schedule

Length of lesson 50 minutes

Learning objective

Students will create a function that translates a sprite.

Standards

🌐 CSTA Standards

2-AP-13: Decompose problems and subproblems into parts to facilitate the design, implementation, and review of programs
2-AP-14: Create procedures with parameters to organize code and make it easier to reuse.

🇺🇸 Common Core Standards

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.8.G.A.4: Understand that a two-dimensional figure is similar to another if the second can be obtained from the first by a sequence of rotations, reflections, translations, and dilations; given two similar two-dimensional figures, describe a sequence that exhibits the similarity between them.

🇺🇸 National Arts Standards

MA:Cr3.1.8b: Refine and modify media artworks, improving technical quality and intentionally accentuating selected expressive and stylistic elements, to reflect an understanding of purpose, audience, and place.
MA:Pr5.1.8c: Demonstrate adaptability using tools, techniques and content in standard and experimental ways to communicate intent in the production of media artworks.
MA:Re7.1.8 b: Compare, contrast, and analyze how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience and create intention.
MA:Re8.1.8: Analyze the intent and meanings of a variety of media artworks, focusing on intentions, forms, and various contexts.

Students will use the same project across multiple lessons.

My canvas