Lance Grimsley

This is a step by step guide to creating a space shooting game in Scratch. In this lesson students will add sprites, backdrops, sound effects and variables to create a video game. There will be win and loss conditions and the difficulty can be adjusted. Every aspect of this game can be tweaked. The blocks of code are explained. Students love how these turn out and are very proud when they have them completed. They also enjoy playing the game and making it there own. The lesson comes as a pdf and

This is a bundle for the following animation lessons using Wick Editor. Wick Editor is one of my favorite new programs. Wick is a free browser-based toolkit for making basic animations and interactive applets for the web. It's built to make it as simple as possible to get some images and sounds together, make them interactive, and publish your project online. Wick is a hybrid of an animation tool and a coding environment, heavily inspired by similar tools such as Flash, HyperCard, and Scratch. I

In this lesson students will create internet memes using the free online web editor, Glitch. Students will follow a step by step guide modifying html to create a meme. Students do not need prior knowledge to complete this assignment. The lesson is provided as a pdf and with a link to the Google Slides presentation. This would be great as a html practice lesson and definitely a great intro lesson.

In this lesson students will create a 3D scene using the open source 3D modeling program called Blender. This is a great introductory tutorial to using Blender to create something that looks nice and professional in a short period of time. Blender can be overwhelming, but my students are able to follow this tutorial. I recommend that you go to the tutorial so that you can answer any questions. It is very straightforward and it is step by step intended for beginners. All resources are provided. T

This is comprehension questions to the video of Steve Jobs commencement speech to Stanford University students. This is one of Steve Jobs most famous speeches. The video is 15 minutes long. The questions are provided as a word document with tables so the students can enter responses. There is also a word document with the link to the Google Doc. The key is provided as well. The video link is in the document. I have my students write their own commencements speeches after watching this. This woul

This lesson uses MIT's block based programming tool Scratch. Students will use Scratch to recreate a song using sheet music. This is a perfect lesson for all users of Scratch and a great introduction to music theory. Advanced students could take the project further by adding animations. This lesson is also perfect for any music teacher. My students love this lesson!

This is a simple lesson how to use Vocaroo. Vocaroo is a free online podcasting tool that works on Chromebooks. Once your students are ready to record their podcasts they can use Vocaroo and this tutorial to create podcasts using a PC, Mac or Chromebook.

In this lesson students will remix an html web comic. This step by step guide will teach students the basics of editing an html document. This is great for any beginner. This would be a great lesson for any language arts teacher who wants to integrate technology as well. The students could create a comic based on a short story or novel. The tutorial is provided as a pdf and a link is provided to the Google Slides presentation which is fully editable. The students will have fun creating these com

This is a bundle for the following lessons: Creating a Buzzfeed Type Personality Quiz with Code STEAM works w/ ChromebooksCreating Dice and Randomizing Rolls with Code - STEAM - Works w/ Chromebook The Wick website describes itself as a free browser-based toolkit for making basic animations and interactive applets for the web. It's built to make it as simple as possible to get some images and sounds together, make them interactive, and publish your project online. Wick is a hybrid of an anima

In this lessons students will create a Buzzfeed type personality quiz using code and Wick Editor. The Wick website describes itself as a free browser-based toolkit for making basic animations and interactive applets for the web. It's built to make it as simple as possible to get some images and sounds together, make them interactive, and publish your project online. Wick is a hybrid of an animation tool and a coding environment, heavily inspired by similar tools such as Flash, HyperCard, and S

This is a bundle for 3 of my Teachers Pay Teachers HTML lessons. Each lesson includes a step by step tutorial. This is great HTML practice. The lessons included are as follows: HTML Meme Maker, Expectations Vs. Reality and Remixing an HTML Comic Please see the links below for information about each lesson. Meme MakerExpectations Vs. RealityRemixing an HTML Comic

In this lesson students will look at an upcoming Major League Baseball game, choose a player, and import his statistics into Google Sheets using a formula. They will then analyze the data to make predictions about the player in the upcoming game. This is a step by step guide. This looks at basic statistics such as average and strikeouts. There are many ways to extend this lesson and differentiate instruction. This is a great way to incorporate real world data to make predictions. The lesson is p

In this lesson students will create a scrolling background using code in the online animation program Wick. Wick Editor is one of my favorite new programs. Wick is a free browser-based toolkit for making basic animations and interactive applets for the web. It's built to make it as simple as possible to get some images and sounds together, make them interactive, and publish your project online. Wick is a hybrid of an animation tool and a coding environment, heavily inspired by similar tools su

This is a fun lesson that uses the online photo editing tool Pixlr. My students love this lesson! Students will find their favorite song lyrics and create a poster on parchment paper featuring the lyrics. Students will learn how to use layer settings to compose an image, convert a pdf to a jpg using online tools, and find more fonts in Google Docs. A great lesson for photography students, graphic design students, and any students looking to spruce up slide shows.

In this lesson students will use wick to recreate the famous bouncing ball animation. The Wick website describes itself as a free browser-based toolkit for making basic animations and interactive applets for the web. It's built to make it as simple as possible to get some images and sounds together, make them interactive, and publish your project online. Wick is a hybrid of an animation tool and a coding environment, heavily inspired by similar tools such as Flash, HyperCard, and Scratch. It was

In this lesson students will create a soundboard using MIT's free introductory block based coding program, Scratch. This is a fun introductory Scratch activity. A soundboard is an application which involves a sound clip being played when an image is clicked. Students will either find a celebrity and their sound clips to make their board or they can even record their own voice or anyone they choose. This tutorial is a step by step guide. The tutorial is provided as a pdf and with a link to the Go

In this lesson students will watch the TED Talk, "Can We Eat to Starve Cancer" and answer comprehension questions. The video is linked in the document. The lesson is provided as a word document and fully editable Google Doc. There are 19 questions and the video is 20 minutes long. My students really enjoyed this video. I used this in my Language Arts class to introduce research paper topics and how this video can be a great starting place to research angiogenesis. This would be great for any sci

In this lesson students will use the free online animating software called Wick Editor to create dice and then use code to randomize rolls. The Wick website describes itself as a free browser-based toolkit for making basic animations and interactive applets for the web. It's built to make it as simple as possible to get some images and sounds together, make them interactive, and publish your project online. Wick is a hybrid of an animation tool and a coding environment, heavily inspired by simil

This is a bundle for 3 of my products. The products are Creating a Resume, Creating a Cover Letter and Creating an HTML Portfolio Website. Each lesson comes with a step by step tutorial and templates. The lessons are provided as pdfs and with links to the Google Slides presentations. Links to all three products included in the bundle: Writing a Cover LetterCreating an Online HTML Portfolio WebsiteCreating a Resume

In this lesson students will create a portfolio website using an html template that I created. Mozilla Thimble is a free html editor that lets you see a live preview. I created this for seniors. In many of their classes they have created resumes or portfolios, but not many, if any, have worked with html. This portfolio could then be downloaded and uploaded to a server to create an actual website. This could be changed for any class or grade level as well. This is a step by step guide for student