Visual programming with Scratch: Animating Stories & Exploring Math
Camp Objectives
- Develop logical thinking and understanding of sequences and problem solving skill by structuring animations.
- Integrate Math and Language skills into the storytelling framework using Scratch programming.
- Encourage storytelling, vocabulary, and sentence formation using interactive animations story board and dialogues.
- Enable students to express ideas through animations and interactive stories while building foundational coding skills.
- Teach students how to create a storyboard by using audio, text, and animation effectively.
- Encourage students teamwork, communication, and confidence by allowing students to create, present, and refine their Scratch projects.
Camp details
| Students strength | 12 |
| Duration | 5 Days |
| Venue | Computer lab, Byrasandra school |
| Class | 7 |
Camp Agenda
| Time | Activity | Description of the activity | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Day 01 : 02/04/2025 | |||
| 10.00 AM to 10.20 AM | Introduction to the camp | Introduce the team to the students. Let the students know the brief agenda of the camp. | |
| 10.20 AM to 11.20 AM | Basic ICT familiarity exercises -1 (Mouse) | Use GCompris to improve mouse and keyboard skills through interactive activities. | |
| 11.30 AM to 12.30 PM | Basic ICT familiarity exercises -2 (Keyboard) | To help students get comfortable with the system
(Typing will help them learn the key pattern of the keyboard with their fingers) |
Learn Tux Typing |
| 12.30 PM to 1.00 PM | Going through the exemplar of different
scratch outputs |
Going through different kinds of resources created on Scratch.
(This will generate students' interest and provide some ideas.) |
File 1: Animated story board to be ready |
| 1.00 PM to 2.00 PM | Lunch Break | ||
| 2.00 PM to 3.30 PM | Introduction to programming / concept of 'instruction'
(physical demonstration) |
Helping students understand the axis (X, Y) and introducing key terms so they
become familiar with certain controls or functions e.g., Turn, Change, Repeat, Set to, Condition, etc |
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| 3.00 PM to 4.00 PM | Making students groups and selecting story | Based on the students' ICT level and their participation throughout the days,
pairs will be formed to work together.
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| Day 02 : 03/04/2025 | |||
| 10.00 AM to 10.20 AM | Recap with Graph and key words discussed | Discuss the Day 1 activities, including the physical activity. | |
| 10.20 AM to 10.40 AM | Basic ICT familiarity exercises -2
(Folder creation) |
Students will create their folders on the computer to keep all their work for the next four days. | |
| 10.40 AM to 11.40 AM | Explore the Scratch interface and basic functionalities | * Sprite (the object), coding area, output screen, and background images.
* Blocks, sprites, move, forward, back, turn, and the stage for animation creation. |
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| 11.40 AM to 12.40 PM | Hands-on activity: Animate a sprite
with movement, sound, and basic interactions. |
* Move the sprite with some text and sound, and change it to another sprite.
* Import sprites. * Import a background image. * Save the file to the PDL. |
To download additional Stage and
sprites will be added |
| 12.40 PM to 1.00 PM | Listening and Understanding of the
selected story |
* Help students re-listen to the pre-selected story.
* Discuss possible storyboard ideas based on the Scratch features they explored. |
Add all the KK stories to Systems, Get Headphone |
| 1.00 PM to 2.00 PM | Lunch Break | ||
| 2.30 PM to 3.45 PM | Students collaboratively write scripts and
create dialogues for their animated stories. |
* Discuss the story with peers, finalize the story creation, and divide tasks among themselves.
* Students will write the images and dialogues in pairs based on listening and visualization. (The ITFC team will assist in the finalization.) |
Get few A4 Sheets with Pencils and eraser. |
| 3.45 PM to 4.00 PM | Recap the session and assign homework – students have to draw images for their story. | ||
| Day 03 : 04/04/2025 | |||
| 10.00 AM to 1.00 PM | Creating Story board- Part 1 | * Creating a project.
* Adding a background. * Including an animated story name. * Story creation will follow a proper sequence of events. |
Sprits and background need to
Downloaded and Added to the systems |
| 1.00 PM to 2.00 PM | Lunch Break | ||
| 2.00 PM to 3.30 PM | Creating Story board- Part 2 | Adding dialogues and animations to enhance the storytelling experience. | |
| 3.30 PM to 4.00 PM | Review students' progress and assist them in completing the storyboard and adding text. | ||
| Day 04 : 07/04/2025 | |||
| 10.00 AM to 1.00 PM | Creating Story board- Part 3 | * Students will continue "Creating Storyboard – Part 2" if they have not yet * finished.
* Playing our exemplar storyboard to help them get ideas about adding audio to their storyboard. * Helping students practice dialogues and record them. |
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| 1.00 PM to 2.00 PM | Lunch Break | ||
| 2.00 PM to 4.00PM | Creating Story board- Part 3 | * Demonstrating how to add audio to the storyboard and sequence it.
* Students start adding recorded audio files to the story scenes. |
Team should load the audio by
renaming the file with sequence so that it can added quickly |
| Day 05 : 08/04/2025 | |||
| 10.00 AM to 1.00 AM | Working on the over all story board project | * Student work on their project and complete and finalise the story board.
* Practice presentation with the help from ITfC team |
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| 1.00 PM to 2.00 PM | Lunch Break | ||
| 2.00 PM to 4.00 PM | Students presentation | * Students work on their project to complete and finalize the storyboard.
* They practice their presentation with help from the ITfC team. |
Make a folder and copy the projects of students
to help students to present their work |