Focus:
Design, Write and debug programs
Suitable:
Key stage 2 Computing
What you need:
Scratch online – http://scratch.mit.edu/
A prompt sheet to help children to design their program using screen shots to demonstrate what the code needs to look like.
Code for angry bird sprite
What you do:
Look at the code pictures above and let the children attempt to create it. As an extension the children can change what happens when the angry bird hits the pig.
Learning benefits:
Children have a chance to look at the code and gain the experience of creating a working program for themselves before then adapting the code to develop the program.