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Encourage students to make Scratch sprites smaller when making games in order to ease game play and make it more fun.

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  • When the sprite is large, it takes up too much of the stage and makes it difficult to include obstacles in a game.
  • For example, students can use the resize button to make the helicopter on the left the size of the helicopter on the right.
  • Larger helicopter on the left and smaller helicopter on the right

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  • Scratch
  • Intro Programming
External Source
Colleen Lewis' CS10K Scratch Webinar
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