Unit Map 2012-2013
Saigon South International School
ICT 6 / Grade 6 (Middle School)
Robert Appino
Unit: Remixing Interactive Stories through Programming (Week 31, 4 Weeks)
Stage 1: Desired Results
Standards & Benchmarks:
ICT, Grade 6-12, Technology Operations & Concepts
Digital Tools and Software Applications

Use digital tools for a curricular purpose (e.g., digital camera, voice
recorder, interactive technologies, digital probes/sensors, hand-held
devices)
ICT, Grade 6-12, Creativity & Innovation
Creative Work

Create original works as a means of personal or group expression (e.g.,
drawing, painting, audio recording, movie creation software, digital
presentations)
Innovative Work

Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes
Brief Summary:
In this unit students read and explore the four modes (text, image, sound and
interaction) in the digital story Inanimate Alice. Inanimate Alice using these mode
to immerse the reader into the story and makes the reader a participant through
interacting with the story. The culmination in the unit is students create a remix
of a scene from the story. They design their scenes to include the four modes
and are able to do this using Scratch programming on their laptops and using
Garageband on the iPads to create their sounds and/or songs. All of their project
scenes are uploaded to the Scratch website for the community and world to see
on scratch.mit.edu. Also, students will include this project into their blogs.
Understandings:
Essential Questions:
-Inanimate Alice uses four modes (text,
image, sound and interaction) to tell a
story
-That our senses are enhanced by the
four modes
-Immersive environments are one's that
a person feels they are in
-Immersive readers are more engaged
with a story
What is a remix?
How do stories create immersive
environments?
How can the four modes (text, image,
sound and interaction) enhance
storytelling?
Why is reader engagement paramount
in storytelling?
-Using programming to recreate a scene
requires pre-planning, experimentation, How can programming be used to create
evaluation and revision.
immersive stories?
Knowledge:
Skills:
-The function of the four modes (text,
image, sound and interaction) in the
digital story Inanimate Alice
-That Scratch programming can tell
stories with multiple modes
-Control, motion, looks, sounds and
sensing structures using Scratch
programming
-That remixing a project is for education
is fair use
-They can explore the greater Scratch
community to learn scripts
-The the modes can create a mood
within the scene.
-use control structures
-broadcast commands
-identify four modes in their stories
-create a digital scene using Scratch
programming
-manipulate scripts and sprites to tell a
story with four modes
-creating sounds and melodies with
multiple instruments using Garageband
Stage 2: Assessment Evidence
Performance Tasks & Assessments:
Alice Remix
Performance: Projects
After re-reading the story again and pick ONE scene and change or extend it. Use
the modes for planning (text, image, sound and interaction).
First Add a screenshot of your screen and then answer the following questions
about the modes:
What text will you change/extend?
What image(s) will you use? Describe it in detail (you will have time to draw it
later)
What sound(s) will you use? Describe it in detail (you will get to experiment with
sound later)
How will readers interact with this scene?
Explain why you choose the text, images, sounds and interaction.
How will you go about creating this?
-scratch
-hand drawing
-model
-garageband
-other ideas
Stage 3: Learning Plan
Learning Plan:
Resources:
Week 1:
Read Inanimate Alice as a class once.
Discuss. Then pair students in two and
have them read together. Complete
writing task in Part 1.
Alice Remix Doc (this includes Part 1-4
from the beginning to the project to the
reflection).
Alice Remix Project Rubric
Scratch Website: scratch.mit.edu
Introduce the modes and have students
identify them in the story. What function
do they serve? function of each modes.
Complete Part 2.
How will changing a mode or multiple
modes impact a scene or the entire
story? What is a re-mix? Complete Part
3.
Week 2:
Revise and finalize plans. Start building
projects in Scratch.
Week 3:
Continue building and revising projects
in Scratch. Start creating sounds and
soundtracks with Garageband.
Week 4 & 5:
Finalize project and bring Garageband
files into Scratch.
Final revisions and publishing to the
Scratch website. Complete the reflection
and post final project with reflection on
student blogs.
Alice Remix Doc
Alice Remix Project Rubric
Reflection Rubric
Scratch Website
Scratch Wiki