National curriculum content
Design, write and debug programs that accomplish specific goals; solve problems by decomposing them into smaller parts.
Lesson objectives
- Learning about animations
- Creating a storyboard
- Creating characters and a background
- Starting to animate the characters
- Adding sounds to the animations
- Reviewing and improving the animations
What we want children to know
- Create an algorithm for an animated scene in the form of a storyboard
- Write a program in Scratch to create the animation
- Put the blocks of their Scratch script into order
- Correct mistakes in their animation programs
What skills we want children to develop
- Solving a problem by decomposing it into smaller parts
- Making a sequence in programs combining graphics, text and sound
- Use logical reasoning to explain how some simple algorithms work
- Debug their scripts and detect and correct errors
Vocabulary
algorithm, animation, input, output, program, script, storyboard