Ms. R’s Computer Class

This week we are busy completing our Scratch projects and preparing them so they can be posted on the Scratch website. Oy completed and working projects will be uploaded, so get a classmate to review your work and fill out the blue critique sheet that is at the front of the classroom. This way any [...]

The final Scratch project is due the last week of school (June 24th). Your project will use the various concepts that you have learned the past few weeks and you will be assessed according to the complexity of your scripts, and the way in which you put them together to create your project. Please see [...]

Variables are used to store information. You know about variables from science class and math class. Sometimes a variable is something you need to find the answer for (an unknown number for example), and sometimes a variable might be something in your experiment that you change each time you do the experiment. In programming a [...]

Any sprite can send and respond to silent messages sent behind the scenes. This allows us to have one sprite alert one or more sprites about something How Does It Work? A sprite sends a “message” out for another sprite to receive and respond to. The message isn’t sent to a particular sprite, instead it [...]

There are several great ways to use the Ask and Answer blocks in Scratch such as creating a Quiz where the “user” can type in the answers. The ask script allows for the user to type an answer using the keyboard. Take a look at some of these student examples to see how you can [...]