Author: John Johnston

I am a teacher, currently working in Banton Primary for North Lanarkshire Council. I also act as Product Owner/provide support for Glow Blogs.

Dice Emulator

Press the Arrow: ▶︎ then give it a shake

Things you might need:

makecode blocks

Challenge

That is quite simple, can you make a randomiser that shows dice faces?

You would need an if-else block, a variable and a comparison block!

microbit dice

 

Scratch: Repeated Polygons

You can use repeats and rotation to make interesting patterns from polygons.

Remember to add the Pen blocks!

I like to set the size of my sprite to 10%

Draw a Square

Scratch code for square

Repeat the Square

Things to Change

  • Colours
  • line size
  • The Polygon (how do you draw a triangle or pentagon) Hint: 4 x 90 =360º
  • The number of repeats in the outer loop. Hint: 10x 36 =360º
  • more than one Polygon.

Shape Challenges

Shape Challenge 5

Make Circle Art, use concentric or overlapping circles. Colour you Art! Limited colours or something else! Read more

Shape Challenge 3

Design a Teeshirt logo from circles Read more

Shape Challenge 2

Make some different quadrilaterals with keynote Make a label for them with names, the parallel sides & right angles. Read more

Shape Challenge 6

Find some 2D or 3D Shapes Take photos of them with Your iPad Import them into Powerpoint or pic collage & label them and their features. Read more

Shape Challenge 1

Find some Angles, Acute, Obtuse & Right Take photos of them with Your iPad Import them into Keynote or PowerPoint & label them. Read more

Shape Challenge 4

Find some 3D shapes Take photos of them with Your iPad Import them into Powerpoint or pic collage & label them and their features. Read more