LANGUAGE

TABS Edit scripts, costumes, or sounds.

GREEN FLAG A way to start scripts.

STAGEWhere your Scratch creations come to life.

NEW SPRITE BUTTONSCreate a new character or object for your project.

SPRITE LIST Thumbnails of all your sprites. Click to select and edit a sprite.

SCRIPTS AREADrag blocks in, snap them together into scripts.

BLOCKS PALETTE Blocks for programming your sprites.

CURRENT SPRITE INFO

TOOLBAR PRESENTATION MODEPresent your project.

SPRITEROTATION STYLE

VIEW MODEChange to large or small stage view.

STOP SIGN Stops all scripts.

SAVE

SHARE

MOUSE Y DISPLAYShows location of cursor.

INTERFACE

STAGE

Stage is where you see your stories, games, and animations come to life. Sprites move and interact with one another on the Stage.

Stage has an x-coordinate of 0 and a y-coordinate of 0.

(cursor) around and look at the mouse x-y displaybelow the Stage.

y

x

x:240 y:180

x:240 y:-180

x:-240 y:180

x:-240 y:-180

x:0 y:0

MOVE

Drag a MOVE block into the Scripts area.

Click on the block to make the cat move.

ADD A SOUND

Drag out a PLAY DRUM and snap it onto the MOVE block.

Click and listen.

If you can’t hear it, check that the sound on your computer is on.

You can choose di�erent drums from the pull-down menu.

Click

START A DANCE

Add another MOVE block. Click inside the block and type in a minus sign.

Add another PLAY DRUM block, then choose a drum from the menu. Click to run.

Click on any of the blocks to run the stack.

To stop, click the stop button at the top of the screen.

Click to run.

Drag out a FOREVER block and drop it on top of the stack. You want the mouth of the FOREVER to wrap around the other blocks.

To drag a stack, pick it up from the top block.

You can click on any block to run a stack.

AGAIN AND AGAIN

GREEN FLAG

Whenever you click the green flag, your script will start.

To stop, click the stop button.

Drag out a block and snap it on top.

CHANGE COLOR

Click to see what it does.

Drag out a CHANGE EFFECT block.

KEY PRESS

Now press the space bar on your keyboard.

Snap on a You can choose a di�erent key from the pull-down menu.

PRACTICE