Scratch and Makey Makey Directions for Interactive Dot and Musical Tree

Scratch is a drop and drag coding program that is on the web. You can also down load the on line editor to bypass any internet issues. The website is scratch.mit.edu

You can start by clicking on create to start a new script, you can create an account in order to be able to save, or you can download the off line editor to your laptop, and you can save directly to your laptop.
Once you are in the program you can start by clicking create. Below is the screen you will get. We are not working with the cat this time so he will just hang out to the left. You will be dragging and dropping code to the right.

 

Next you will go to the Scripts tab and click on Events. You always need to start with an event in Scratch. Next you will drag and drop the block of code that says "when space key is pressed" Then drag block code to the space to the right. 

Next you will click on the Sounds tab to choose a sound for your command. The Sounds tab automatically has a "meow" sound but you can search more sounds by clicking on the speaker icon. When you click on the speaker icon you will see a whole library of sounds. You can preview sounds by hitting the play button. When you select a sound make sure it is greyed out then scroll to bottom of page and click OK.

Once you choose sound click on script tab and then click on the magenta color block of sound. Below you will choose the "play sound meow" code block and drag to the right. Connecting it to the Event block.

















Follow these steps for programming sound for each item that is connected the space control and up, down, right and left arrows on the Makey Makey.

Always remember to click the green flag to start all events.