Interactive Ethical Story Using Scratch

Use Scratch to create an interactive ethical story, a story that teaches a lesson, or at least makes you understand how hard it is to make a good choice and have you feel that the right choice is always best. There should be a part of the story where the viewer can make a decision that will change the ending of the story completely. The viewer must make the decision that is morally correct. One decision is right and one decision, although it may help you in the short-term, will hurt because it was not the right thing to do.

If you need to build your skills in Scratch use the lessons at LearnScratch.org. Scratch has been designed to help develop the nine learning skills described on the Why Learn Scratch page. These include skills in communication, creativity, social responsibility, accountability, adaptability and collaboration for the students of the 21st Century.

Project: Follow these steps to create your Interactive Ethical Story and to post it as a discussion with your self-assessment on Youth Voices.

• Create a story animation in Scratch at least three minutes long.
• Make it interactive. The player can affect the outcome of the story.
• Give the player an ethical decision with at least two different choices.
• Develop at least two branches of the story with distinct endings that depend on the player’s ethical decision.
• If you use or modify existing material, be it a story, images, or scripts, from another source, give credit to the original author.
• Keep the story appropriate for children younger than 13 years old.

Self-assessment: Copy and paste this guide into a Google Doc or Word processing document of your choice: Reviewing a Scratch Project - Ethical Story. Write about which requirements you were able to satisfy, and those that you could not meet, and why.

Publishing and Commenting on Youth Voices:

• Click on the link to go to http://scratch.mit.edu and log in. Go to the page for your Ethical Story animation.
• Copy the embed code for your Ethical story.
• Click on the link to go to http://youthvoices.net and log in.
• Create a new discussion post.
• Paste the code from the Scratch site into the Description box.
• Add a title, at least 5 keywords, choose "Gaming and New Media" for the channel.
• Paste your self-assessment under the Scratch code, and save.
• Comment on other students' Interactive Ethical Stories using these Guides: Agree/Disagree Response or General Discussion Response.