Lesson 4
Testing transitions
Using their screenplay activity sheet from lesson 1, students will input the rest of the screenplay into their Mystery story program. They will be introduced to tools within the Costumes tab and learn how to duplicate and modify the Text Box sprite to tell the rest of their mystery story. To ensure their program runs as intended, students will participate in a testing activity where they will test their program with a partner and identify if there are bugs that need to be fixed.
Learning objective
Students will test their program.
Standards
CSTA Standards
- 1B-AP-10: Create programs that include sequences, events, loops, and conditionals
- 1B-AP-11: Decompose (break down) problems into smaller, manageable subproblems to facilitate the program development process.
- 1B-AP-15: Test and debug (identify and fix errors) programs.
- 1B-AP-16: Take on varying roles, with teacher guidance, when collaborating with peers during the design, implementation, and review stages of program development
Common Core Standards
- CCSS.ELA.W.5.3.a: Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.
- CCSS.ELA.W.5.3.b: Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations.
- CCSS.ELA.W.5.5: With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1-3 up to and including grade 5 here.)
Multi-lesson projects
Students will use the same project across multiple lessons.
Lesson contents
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Scratch projects
Mystery story
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Multi-lesson project
Students will use the same project across multiple lessons