Facilitation Notes

Teacher Resource 3

Use these prompts while students plan, code, and debug.

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Use these prompts to keep students focused on one clear story moment and the coding choices that make the moment visible.

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Moment	Teacher Prompt	What to Watch For
Choosing a scene	Which part of the story would be interesting to see, hear, or animate?	Students may choose too much. Push them toward one focused moment.
Decomposing	What are the smaller parts inside this scene?	Ask for: characters setting action dialogue emotion
Planning code	What should happen first? What should happen next?	Require a clear plan before coding.
Debugging	What did you expect to happen, and what actually happened?	Encourage testing one sprite or script at a time.

I chose this moment because ________________________________.

The first thing that happens in my scene is ________________________________.

I used __________________ in Scratch to show __________________.

I debugged my project by ________________________________.