What would the Mona Lisa say if she could talk? Scholars create a digital story within the Scratch block-based coding program. They make famous paintings talk and move when viewers click on them to complete the third of eight parts in the Google CS Art unit.

Concepts

digital art, computer code, painting

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Additional Tags

visual and performing arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Invite an art historian to give a presentation about famous paintings
• Collaborate with the art and/or history departments to make a cross-curricular lesson
  

Classroom Considerations

• Learners should have knowledge of the Scratch coding program from previous installments
  

Pros

• Provides example projects to peruse
• Includes discussion prompts to use as part of a lesson closure activity
  

Cons

• None