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Your project must be either a Game or a story. Below are the criteria of each.
Project Game
Requirements:
Project Story
5 things that you are required to have in your story
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Resources to enhance your project
We have Makey Makey sets available if you choose to use them in your project.
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Click here to see samples of dancing characters.
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Your project must be either a Game or a story. Below are the criteria of each.
Project Game
Requirements:
- Must have a logical reason to your game
- For example:
- Must have a beginning and an ending
- There must be a goal involved (collecting coins, dodging bad guys, getting to the end, etc.)
- If your goal is collecting, you need to have a score tracker
- For example:
- Cannot recreate frogger or frogger-like game since that is what we created to learn Scratch
- You must have instructions in the Notes section. If your project is a game, you should have instructions on how to navigate/move through the game as well as what do (objectives) in your game.
- Your game has to work.
- You CANNOT remix someone else's project, you can use another project as research and recreate their code on your own NEW project file.
Project Story
5 things that you are required to have in your story
- Theme
- A theme is something important the story tries to tell us—something that might help us in our own lives. Not every story has a theme, but it’s best if it does.
- Plot
- Plot is most often about a conflict or struggle that the main character(s) goes through. The conflict can be with another character, or with the way things are, or with something inside the character, like needs or feelings.
The main character should win or lose at least partly on their own, and not just be rescued by someone or something else. Most often, the character learns or grows as they try to solve their problem. What the character learns is usually theme.
- Plot is most often about a conflict or struggle that the main character(s) goes through. The conflict can be with another character, or with the way things are, or with something inside the character, like needs or feelings.
- Story Structure (Beginning, middle, ending)
- Characters
- A main character should have at least one flaw or weakness. Perfect characters are not very interesting. They’re also harder to feel something in common with or care about. And they don’t have anything to learn. In the same way, there should be at least one thing good about a “bad guy.”
- Setting
- Set your story in a place and time that will be interesting or familiar.
Click here for student examples
Resources to enhance your project
We have Makey Makey sets available if you choose to use them in your project.
Click here or here to see sample projects created in Scratch that use Makey Makey
Click here to see samples of dancing characters.
Click here to see samples of story projects.