Mr. Cochran’s 4th graders used Scratch to demonstrate their understanding of the planets in order based on their distance from the sun. First students went to Britannica Image Quest and selected an image of the planets. They saved the image to their desktop and then imported the image as a background in Scratch. Next they selected the rocket ship sprite from the library. Then it was time to code! The students started by using a pattern of motion blocks (glide to x:#, y:#) and the Looks blocks (say “hello” for “2” seconds). Students programmed their sprite to move to each planet and then say the name of the planet. After all of the planets were identified, students went back and inserted additional say blocks to give some details about each planet. The completed tours were shared with a Scratch studio so that their teacher could easily see all of the students work in one location. Take a look at one of the finished tours!
