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EDUCATOR GUIDE Workshop Overview
Let’s Dance Here’s a suggested agenda for a
one-hour workshop:
With this guide, you can plan and lead
a one-hour workshop using Scratch.
Participants will create an animated dance First, gather as a group to
scene, combining music and dance moves. introduce the theme and
IMAGINE spark ideas.
10 minutes
Next, help participants as
they create dance projects,
CREATE working at their own pace.
40 minutes
At the end of the session,
gather together to share
SHARE and reflect.
10 minutes
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Get Ready for the Workshop Imagine IMAGINE
Use this checklist to prepare for the workshop. Begin by gathering the participants to introduce
the theme and spark ideas for projects.
Preview the Tutorial
The Let’s Dance tutorial shows participants
how to create their own projects. Preview the Warm-up Activity: Share a Dance Move
tutorial before your workshop and try the first
few steps: Put on music with a beat, and bring the group together in a
scratch.mit.edu/dance circle. Do a dance move while you say your first name to the
beat of the music. Then ask the group to copy what you did.
Go around the circle taking turns, with each person saying their
Print the Activity Cards name and doing a move for others to repeat.
Print a few sets of Let’s Dance cards to
have available for participants during
the workshop. Spark Ideas and Inspiration
scratch.mit.edu/dance/cards
Show the introductory video for the Let’s Dance tutorial. The video
shows a variety of projects for ideas and inspiration.
Make sure participants have Scratch accounts
Participants can sign up for their own Scratch accounts at
scratch.mit.edu, or you can set up student accounts if you
have a Teacher Account. To request a Teacher Account, go to:
scratch.mit.edu/educators
Set up a studio for project sharing on Scratch
Set up a studio so participants will be able to add their projects.
Go to your My Stuff page, then click the + New Studio button.
Type in a name for the studio (such as ‘Our Dance Projects’).
View at scratch.mit.edu/dance or vimeo.com/llk/dance
Check sound on computers or laptops
Check to make sure that the sound output is
working on the computers or laptops.
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Demonstrate the First Steps IMAGINE Create CREATE
Demonstrate the first few steps of the tutorial Support participants as they make dance
so participants can see how to get started. projects, on their own or in pairs.
Go to Scratch to create a new Add a dancer from the Start with Prompts
project. Choose a backdrop. Sprite library. Ask participants questions to get started
Which dancer will Where will
you choose? they dance?
Provide Resources
Offer options for getting started
Add music from the Sound library.
Code a dance sequence. Others may want to
Some particpants may want
explore using the
to follow the online tutorial:
printed activity cards.
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Suggest Ideas for Starting
• Choose a backdrop • Choose dance moves by
• Add a dancer switching costumes
• Add music • Code a dance sequence
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CREATE Share SHARE
More Things to Try
Help the participants add their projects to a
• Add a repeat loop shared studio in Scratch. Give them a link to
• Adjust the timing to sync the dance with the music
the studio. Then they can click ‘Add Projects’
• Add more dancers
• Change backdrops at the bottom of the page.
• Add colors and effects
Ask for volunteers to show their project to the
Add Your Own Dance Moves group. Everyone can dance along!
If you have time, here’s a way to
personalize your project:
• Find a solid color wall that is well-lit
What’s Next?
• Take photos of yourself doing different Participants can use the ideas from this workshop to create
dance moves a variety of dance projects. Here are a couple of different
• Import the photos as costumes into approaches:
Scratch
• Use the magic wand to remove
the background, see Dance Together
http://bit.ly/scratchmagicwand Give each person 3 to 5 minutes to start
a dance party project. Then, have them
switch to the next computer and add
Prepare to Share a dancer. Keep switching for several
rounds, adding a dancer to each. Then
To add instructions and credits let participants return to see (and finish)
to a project, click the button: the project they originally started.
“See project page”.
Where Will you Dance?
This video shows how to share a Take a photograph of a park or other
project on the Scratch website: favorite place, import it into Scratch
vimeo.com/llk/share and use it as a backdrop for a dance
animation.
Scratch is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab.
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