This week's theme is art and movement using LEGO WeDo and Scratch. Scratch is free software from MIT that lets you create interactive art, animations, music, and games. LEGO WeDo kits contain a motor, a tilt sensor, and a distance sensor as well as LEGO blocks. You can make all sorts of cool things like a top spinner, a ball kicker that kicks whenever a ball gets close, or a plane that controls a Scratch plane. You will learn about responding to events, variables, and loops.
Objectives
Students will Stamp and Pen tools in Scratch to create visual art that responds to linear directions and reacts to sensor input.
Students will identify and Use Variables to manipulate Scratch and WeDo motors to create visual art.
Students will use sound and distance input to control computer graphics.
Students will use binary numbers to perform basic counting and decoding operations.
Students will encode their names in a binary system.
Students will create moving sculptures with WeDo Robotics system that use rotational motion and gears.
Monday
Morning:
Introduction and Survey http://findings.Pre-Camp.sgizmo.com/s3/
Scratch: Spinner Art - Using Random and Stamp
Scratch: Spiral Art - Using Pen Down, Width, Color
WeDo: Start Top Project
Afternoon:
WeDo: Finish Tpp and Program with Scratch
Take GreenScreen Pictures
Open Time with Scratch
Tuesday
Morning:
Campus Scavenger Hunt
Scratch: Polygon Project
Scratch: Name Art with Green Screen Pictures
WeDo: Moving Scuptures
Afternoon:
Binary Bracelet
WeDo: Moving Sculptures and Gears
Wednesday
Morning:
Amplitude Art
WeDo Sensors and Variables with Scratch
Afternoon:
Pool
Thursday
Morning:
WeDo: Moving Sculpture with Glowsticks: Build and Test
Scratch Quilt Project
Scratch: Growing Flowers
Afternoon:
WeDo: Film Moving Scuptures
Scratch: Working with Pictures and Graphic Effects
Open Time for Projects
Friday
Morning:
WeDo: Spinner Art
Scratch: Open Time
Scratch Projects:
Spinner Art
Polygon Project
Spiral Scratch
Amplitude Art
Name Art with Pictures
Growing Flowers
Scratch Quilt Project
Change My Picture
WeDo Projects:
Spinner Top
Moving Sculpture with Glowsticks and Picture Taking in Dark
Drawing Robot
Using Sensors to Control Art and Drawing with Scratch
Art / CS Unplugged Projects
Binary Bracelet
Materials: Laptops, mice, chargers, WeDo kits, balls, scavenger hunt printouts, binary bracelets, glowsticks, and camera
Workers:
Monday/Wednesday/Friday: Kamari , Louis , Diana , and Brooke
Tuesday/Thursday: Kyle , Karima , Zoe , and Blaire
