SCRATCH-Summarised notes and practical tasks

What is Scratch? Scratch is a free programmable toolkit that enables kids (like yourselves) to create

their own games, animated stories, and interactive art. You can also share your creations with one another over the Internet.

What can Scratch do? Make simple games, animations, presentations and stories

Key term DefinitionsProgramming Is the act or process of writing or planning a computer program.sprite A controllable object or graphic within a Scratch program, visible in the sprite list. It can

be moved independently around the screen, producing animated effects.

Script Is a program or sequence of instructions that is interpreted or carried out by another program rather than by the computer. In this case, SCRATCH!

stage The project test area of Scratch axes The horizontal and vertical reference lines, labelled x and y, that intersect and produce

a co-ordinate space divided into four quadrantsco-ordinates Horizontal and vertical measurements that combine to describe the position of a point

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SCRATCH-Summarised notes and practical tasks

or object, expressed in positive and negative values of the x and y axesquadrants The four segments of the co-ordinate space, numbered 1–4 beginning with the top

right and going round anti-clockwise

Definitions Task

Drag the ‘Word’ oval into the correct box.

Word DefinitionThese are all the ‘steps’ that run in order.

Forever and repeat are examples of this. This is where a sequence of instructions runs until a condition is met.

An example of this is when someone clicks a mouse button or presses a key.

This is also known as a ‘condition’. IF a condition is met, then certain sequences can run.

This is a graphic that appears on a stage. Graphics can have different ‘costumes’ to help with animation.

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SelectionSpriteSequenceIteration

Input

SCRATCH-Summarised notes and practical tasks

Label the parts of the scratch user interface.

Complete the table below by colouring in the boxes then pick and drag an example of a command in each category. One example has been done for you.

MOTION CONTROL

LOOKS SENSING

SOUND OPERATORS

PEN VARIABLES

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Sample Commands: