CLASS OBJECTIVE
Define the final project and its required components for the summative evaluation by analyzing daily school needs, in order to create an interactive animation that provides solutions to those problems.
INTRODUCTION
This period, you'll be working on a team project: creating an interactive animation. The idea is to combine your creativity, programming skills, and teamwork to create something meaningful and useful.
Today’s session is all about exploring the project objectives, analyzing examples, and thinking about real problems we see at school.
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Objective:
The goal of this project is for you and your team to create an interactive story in Scratch that helps solve a problem in your school environment. The problem can be anything that affects students or the school community—like learning math, using the keyboard properly, sorting trash correctly (plastic, organic, etc.), or any other issue you observe and think is important.
Stages:
The project will be developed over three weeks, each one focused on a different stage.
Today is Stage 1, where we will:
- Learn about the project
- Analyze examples
- Choose the problem your team wants to solve
Deliverables:
This session will have a specific task (or deliverable) that must be completed.
For today, your team will:
- Choose a problem that is present in your school environment. (Name it)
- Write a hypothesis that describes the problem
- Include a short justification explaining why is important to help solve this problem.
Your teacher will provide a template that your team must use to collect and organize all the evidence and work from each stage of the project.
LETS SEE SOME EXAMPLES OF INTERACTIVE GAMES IN SCRATCH
Here are a few examples of Scratch games that aim to solve real-life problems:
You can explore these and other gamesor animations on the Scratch website.
Remember: you can look at how these games are programmed, and if you find any game mechanics that could help in your own project, feel free to use or adapt them!
ACTIVITY
- Form your team based on the number of members your teacher assigns, and sit together.
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Discuss school problems you’ve noticed—things that make learning or daily life at school harder.
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Choose one problem your team wants to work on.
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Use the template provided by your teacher to write:
- Problem to solve:
- Describe what issue or challenge you observed at school.
- Example: First grade students don’t know how to do basic algebraic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division).
- Hypothesis (What do you think causes the problem?):
- We believe that… [who] + [what problem] + because… [possible cause]
- Example: We believe that first grade students don’t know how to do basic algebraic operations because they don’t practice enough or the practice is not interactive.
- Justification (Why is important to solve this matter?):
- Explain why this problem matters.
- Example: Learning basic algebraic operations is the foundation for more advanced math skills and helps students develop logical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
