Students will use inputs on motion (blue) and looks (purple) blocks to write shorter, more efficient programs in ScratchJr. They will then create a project in ScratchJr in which a character tells a story by moving to various points on a selected background.

Students create an animated scene as the culminating project to the first ScratchJr unit module. They will review the concepts and programming blocks that they have learned, and then they will program the scene of Old Macdonald’s farm, where the various farm animals each have their own movement and actions programmed by students.

This is a lesson plan designed to help students sequence a story.  Many of the strategies within the lesson plan will support your multi-lingual students. This lesson was used with 3rd grade, but could easily be adapted to suit other grade levels. 

Identify the plot elements of a fiction story and create your very own comic strip!

The superhero Super Flip is flipping out of comic books and flying to your rescue. This time, she’s helping you name the plot elements of a fiction story: character, setting, conflict, and resolution. She’ll even reveal her super power of turning the plot elements of a story into a comic!

Learning Objective: analyze plot elements, including the sequence of events, the conflict, and the resolution.