natalie's Recent Projects

thanksgiving crossword

This is the beginning of our Thanksgiving project. By Natalie and Charley. We haven't added any scripts yet. Charley thought of all the words. Maybe you will make your own crossword game, too...

memory exercise

This is a mental exercise that challenges your brain's working memory. The words are spoken (if you have computer sound on). To answer, click in the box and type. I read about it in an article by a researcher named Greg J. Siegle. I wanted to try the exercise, so I made this version in Scratch. (It's called the Adaptive Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test.) The variables keep track of how many are correct and how long it takes to answer.

charles river walk

Example of an interactive map. This is one of my favorite paths to run, along the river. Press "H" to make the boat go from the Harvard boathouse.

when I receive Feb 20

Keith has been using Scratch since it was an early prototype and has shared it with many people since. Happy birthday, Keith, from me and the Scratch cats!

storyteller with dynamic text input experiment

NOTE: Right now this code only works when you open it in the Scratch software (not in presentation mode or online). I am experimenting with answer/responses in a text box, and what we would need in Scratch to make this easier. 1) text boxes that you can write in during operation 2) check for a member (subset) of a list; 3) Get rid of Enter as shortcut for Green flag; 4) Type strings into math comparison blocks; 5) Maybe type into a variable on the stage (but maybe option to lock for presentation mode).

grant searching

This is a card for Iris from Natalie. After the buttons flash, you can click them to search. To replay, click the green flag.

the LEGO Go circus - very beginning

My nephew and niece and their friend started creating this animation today. They are planning to add a circus background, and add more animation to create the "LEGO Go Circus." They built the parts using LEGO bricks. Then we used the camera on my computer to take the pictures.

4 NatalieDucks

This project was inspired by my one of my favorite picture books, The Story of Ping -- about the youngest duck (who was always last in line). INSTRUCTIONS Click on the Green Flag to start. If your computer has sound, turn it up. HOW I MADE THIS To get the ducks to face the way I wanted, I chose the "don't rotate" rotation style button. MORE IDEAS Make a project using the letters of your name. For inspiration, think about your favorite books, animals, sports, or hobbies.

crazy butterflies

Press the Space Bar to move. My niece who is 3 years old described to me what she wanted, and I programmed it. I said her "Hi" had lots of I's, that's how she got idea for the butterfly having lots of "eyes." (If your sound is on you can hear my niece's voice.)

drawing over a stamped sprite

This was inspired DaffyDuck's posting in the forum asking about erasing a sprite with a pen. (This isn't actually erasing the sprite, just a "stamp" of the sprite.)

montreal bagels part1

Click to start! This is the beginning of a project telling what I've learned about the history of bagels from Montreal, Canada.

dragon starter

A virtual pet starter project. Click any button. HOW IT WORKS Each time you click "think" button the program chooses a random number between 1 and 3. That "random thought" number determines which phrase the dragon will choose.

Electric Company inspired Scratch

Turn on speakers for this one (if you want to hear it). I used to watch the PBS show Electric Company as a kid. What I remember most was the mouths pronouncing two syllables of words. I just made this quick rendition (using my Mac's built in video camera). Here's a video from the original show on Youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=M98-5g3TYTI Improvements to make Full silhouettes Two different people (like in the original) Music

A Million Stars

This is an adaptation of a project by Mr Shah called "Random Dots." I added a variable to keep count, so you can see how many stars have been painted so far. It should stop when the counter equals 1,000,000 (one million).

change scenes starter

This project just shows a simple way to hide a sprite when you change scenes. INSTRUCTIONS: Click green flag to start. BEHIND THE SCENES: If you download the code, you'll see the dog sprite just has two scripts: when green flag clicked show when I receive scene2 hide The Stage uses a "broadcast" block to send the message when it's time to change scenes.