creating a comic in scratch v1.4 for year 7

1Creating a comic book using Scratch ©Patrick McGee

Creating A Comic Using Scratch V1.4 – Year 7

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Starter Activity

Open Scratch and input these blocks

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Learning Objectives and Outcomes

Students will be able to create an animated comic using the Scratch interface.

• Enable – Students will be able to create a simple program to switch backgrounds

• Engage – Students will be able to add characters or Sprites

• Empower – Students will be able to add captions or speech bubbles

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Homework

Last lesson you were given a homework task Can you get out your homework and place it on the desk ready

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Comic Scratch

So Let’s Go!

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The steps needed to import the scenes into Scratch

Step one: Click on the Stage iconStep two: Click the background tabStep three: Click import new backgroundStep four: Locate the scenes in your folderStep five: Click ‘OK’ and repeat these steps

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Change the Stage background

• What will this code do?• Add this to

the Stage and try it out.

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Add a character to your comic

By clicking the Sprite area we can add new characters into our comic

Step one: Go to the new sprite sectionStep two: Click choose new sprite from file Step three: Click the fantasy folderStep four: Find the witch spriteStep five: Click ‘OK’

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Add a character to your comic

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Add a speech bubble to your character

• What will this code do?• Add this to

the Witch Sprite and try it out.

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