Telling a Story

We can use a Broadcast block to tell these stories. Broadcast is a way of sending a message to all the sprites in the program.

• Add this code to the Matariki star sprite.
• Change the name of the message to ‘Matariki kōrero’ or Matariki story’.

• We want the stars to hide while we tell a story.
• Add a ‘hide’ block to your code.

• Add a ‘hide’ block to all the other stars when they receive the broadcasted message.
• You can do this by dragging the blocks to the other sprites.
• Test your code.

• Have all your stars dissapeared? We’ll need a way to get them back so we can continue testing our code as we write!
• On each star sprite, add a ‘show’ block to your ‘click green flag’ block, that way we know we can always get our stars back!

• We want to change the background when we are telling each star’s story. For the Matariki star, let’s go to a sunset.
• Go to the Stage.
• Add this code.
• Test your code.

• We will need to be able to get back the night sky backdrop.
• Add this code.

• Add this code to your Narrator Sprite.

• Select the Kite Sprite.
• Add this code to make it fly.

• Add this code to make the kite fly into sky and flutter with the stars.