Electronic Music Free Scratch Coding Activity

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   Go to the Scratch website: https://scratch.mit.edu/

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   Sign in or register for Scratch

   If you already have a Scratch account, click ‘Sign in’ and enter your login details. Otherwise click ‘Join Scratch’ and create your free Scratch account.

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   Open a new project by clicking 'Create'

   
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   Add an awesome backdrop from the Scratch library

   We chose a 'Jurassic' theme

   
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   Next, add three dinosaur sprites from the library

   You can click and drag the dinosaurs to arrange them on the backdrop

   
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   For each dinosaur, go to the sound library and add a different sound

   
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   Now select one of the Dinosaurs and add this code

   This will set the dinosaur's costume to start the project

   
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   Then create a variable called 'Playing'

   Make sure to set it to 'For this sprite only'

   
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   Now you can create this code

   If the Playing variable is 1, then the Dinosaur's costume will change and it will play a sound on loop

   
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    Next add this block

    Any blocks we add to this will run when we click on this dinosaur

    
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    When the dinosaur is clicked, first we will stop all the sounds

    
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    Then create this code to check if the dinosaur's 'Playing' variable is 0

    If it is, then we will switch to 1 when clicked!

    
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    Let's test it out!

    What happens when you click on the dinosaur?

    
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    Now let's copy this code to the other dinosaurs

    Click and drag all of the code over to the other dinosaur sprites

    
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    We'll have to make some edits to the other dinosaur's code

    Here's one of them

    
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    Make the edits for the last dinosaur

    
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    You did it!

    What else could you add to your 'singing' dinosaur project?