Grace Hopper Timeline Scratch Animation

Broadcasting on Scratch

With their partners the students need to examine all of the resources that they read about and choose three facts that inspired them. They had to explain why these three facts were inspiring to them.

One way to help students figure out how to do broadcasting on Scratch is to have them debug a smaller animation. Here is one that I remixed. They were asked to problem solve with their peers how to add another broadcast to the cat.

Final Project

Using the three facts they are going to build a Grace Hopper Timeline Animation.

Requirements:

1. Must use broadcasting Tool

2. Accurate Facts and Images to support Facts

3. 3 Facts

4. Complete Sentences

5. Use an event block to activate the animation

Here is a sample of a final project on Scratch.  There will be more samples to come. 

Differentiated

Have the students remix the example of Grace Hopper and add one more date to the timeline.  They can change the dates and images to what they want, but they will have a basic organizer on how to do it. 

 Resources + Notes:

1. Grace Hopper video

2. Grace Hopper Infographic

3. Grace Hopper Magazine Article

4. Grace Hopper Picture Book

5. I used this great resource to teach the students about broadcasting.

6. The students referred to this video when they were stuck on broadcasting.

This project can be done for any biography that interests you or anytime you want the students to do a timeline.