Week 4: Review & Clones
Week 4: Review & Clones
Unit: Intermediate Scratch
Welcome back from Spring Break! This week you start a brand new project — a falling-objects game — while reviewing the skills you learned in Weeks 1–3. The new skill for the week is cloning, which lets one sprite create many copies of itself.
Weekly Schedule
| Day | Date | Topic | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | Mon 4/13 | Welcome Back — New Game | Review key skills by starting a new falling-objects game from scratch. |
| 17 | Tue 4/14 | Variables Deep Dive | Add speed and lives variables that change how the game plays, not just what’s on screen. |
| 18 | Wed 4/15 | Clones | Use clones to spawn many falling objects from a single sprite. |
| 19 | Thu 4/16 | Game States & Sound | Add start and game-over screens with broadcasts, then add sound effects. |
| 20 | Fri 4/17 | Unit Quiz, Showcase & Week 5 Preview | Take the Intermediate Scratch unit quiz, share your game with the class, and preview the group video game project. |
Graded Assignments
- Falling-Objects Game (due Friday 4/17) — A complete Scratch game with player movement, clones, scoring, lives, game states, and at least one sound effect. Share your project on Scratch before class.
- Intermediate Scratch Unit Quiz (Friday 4/17, in class) — Short quiz covering vocabulary, booleans, loops, conditionals, variables, broadcasts, and clones. Review the study guide and practice questions linked from Day 18.
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