To program this game, we will use the Scratch platform which has the advantage of using visual code: no need to learn a programming language to build your own games and videos!

Target group
School drop outs, Students (primary school), Students (secondary school)
Age group
Children, Teenagers
Proficiency level i
Level 2
Format
Activity sheet
Copyright i
Creative Commons (BY-SA)
Language
English, French , Français

General Objective

Skillset building

Preparation time for facilitator

less than 1 hour

Competence area

3 - Digital content creation

Time needed to complete activity (for learner)

0 - 1 hour

Name of author

Bruno Meyrieux

Support material needed for training

Computer

Resource originally created in

French
Workshop directions

Background preparation

  • Go to Scratch and click ‘Start Creating‘, then in the bottom right corner of the next screen, click the ‘Backdrop‘ tab.

  • Choose a pre-rendered backdrop suitable for a winter scene, like the one suggested below, or create your own.

Create a character

  • Click ‘create Sprite’

  • Choose the snowflake and place it towards the top of the screen.

  • Delete the cat (‘Sprite1’)

Making snowfall

Give the snowflake a size suitable for the countryside (but random, so they’re not all identical!).

The flake is light and falls neither quickly nor straight. At the bottom of the screen it disappears.

Multiply the flakes

  • Test the animation
  • If the animation of the flake works, we can now clone it!
  • Replace ‘when the green flag is clicked’ with ‘when I start with a clone’.

 

 

  • Then change the sequence as following:

  • Finally, add the module to generate randomly at the top of the screen.