SCRATCH lesson one

breakdancer animation
adding the break dancer
RIGHT mouse click on the cat and click
'delete'

Click ‘Choose new sprite from file’

Double click the ‘People’ folder

Click on ‘breakdancer-2’

Click ok.
The sprite will now appear on the stage.

motion and sound

Add the blocks as shown.
(Motion and Sound)

Click the ‘duplicate’ icon (this is above the ‘stage’).

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 Click on the BLUE block you’ve just created…

…drag and snap below.

Change the second ‘move’ block so it reads -10.

Change the second drum to another sound of your

choice (e.g. Ride Cymbal 2)

Add the control blocks as shown.

Click the ‘start’ flag and check out your break dancer!

Experiment with changing the drums and the ‘beat’

values.

changing the costume

Stop your script…

Click on the ‘Costumes’ tab.

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 Click ‘Import’

Import breakdancer-3…click OK.

Do the same again, but import breakdancer-4…

…and breakdancer-1.

Click on the ‘Scripts’ tab.

Click on the ‘looks’ option and then add the blocks as shown.

Start your script…check it out!

adding a background
We will add a stage for the breakdancer to dance
on

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 Click on to the ‘stage’ icon.

Click on to the ‘Backgrounds’ tab.

Click ‘Import’

Double click the ‘Indoors’ folder…

Click the sportlight-stage.

Click ‘ok’.

… … You can click and drag the breakdancer sprite so it’s

on the stage.

adding a music loop

Click on to the dancer sprite.

Adjust the blocks as shown:

(After dragging out blocks, right mouse click and

select ‘delete’)

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 Add the ‘wait’ blocks and change the number to 0.5.

Click on the ‘Sounds’ tab.

Click ‘Import’

Double click ‘Music Loops’

Click ‘HipHop’
…
Click OK.

Add the second set of blocks as shown.

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breakdancer extension

Your breakdancer
program should look like
this:

Add more commands to your

breakdancer animation to
improve it.

For example Create a proper

“routine” for your dancer – i.e. a
series of steps/spins that he must
do – and try and change the
music to match the routine. You could import new sound clips to play at certain
 Move left times in the routine
 Spin three times
 Play a drum machine loop Use iteration to make create this program in the
most efficient way possible
 Repeat this 5 times
i.e. make use of FOREVER and REPEAT loops
To extend your learning
further: When you have finished, explain your learning:

Right-click & choose add comment

Explain what you have done AND why next to your

code

Explain how you have used iteration to make your

program more efficient

Right click on the screen and select save picture of

scripts

Save the image into your area. Insert it into Word,

and print out your work adding any additional
annotation if necessary

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