Illustrate a joke with bitsy
This challenge has been written by Margot Schubert and is part of the EU CODE WEEK CHALLENGES.
Target Audience
- Primary School students (6 to 12 years)
- Lower Secondary School students (12 to 16 years)
- Upper Secondary School students (16 to 18 years)
Experience
- Beginner
Duration
- 1 hour
Recommended Materials
- bitsy runs in a browser https://make.bitsy.org
Purpose
- To design a little game where the user finds the answer to a joke question.
Description
The students design a game where the user finds the answer to a joke question when the figure hits an object on the playing field. The students use basic features of bitsy to complete the challenge.
Instructions
- Think of a joke question. Go to bitsy and start a new project. You will need:
- an avatar - sprite that you can move around
- an object to which your avatar has to go
- a room - the background of your program
- two messages: a question and an answer
- The finished game can be downloaded as an html file.
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Example
- In this website you see an example of a joke and there is a link to a digital whiteboard: http://wordpress.space2code.de/?page_id=276
Click here to download this challenge as a word document.
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