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Makey Makey - Fun with circuit making, problem solving and a little bit of coding hidden...6/15/2016 Year 4 have been experimenting with the Makey Makey to develop their understanding of circuits and conductivity, as well as a little problem solving/testing connections etc. We started with a session exploring the circuit boards and their connections then created our own paper musical instruments, using the ideas from this link to the Makey Makey guides HERE and using the Makey Makey Piano link. The slideshow gives a few ideas of what they did and the QR code alongside gives a video of them playing their 'paper' instruments! Developing coding within the lesson.Following the experimentation and discovery in using the makey makey boards, the children were then introduced to a Star Wars Hour of Code Activity to develop their understanding of linking the makey makey controls to a series of commands in scratch. The children had to program R2D2 to move up, down left and right in order for the makey makey controller to be useful. The children were given some card and thick graphite pencils to draw arrows on and connect their board to. They were then encouraged to add other elements to their games, such as extra characters, and a way of winning and losing the game. (a help video is given below) The children were highly motivated engaged and creative when discussing and making their personalised games and did very well indeed! Next Steps As the children are planning and resourcing ways to control the games themselves (there has been talk of fruit and veg and glove controllers!) we will allocate time to design and create these and then give greater focus to develop the programming of the Star Wars game to enable them to enhance their knowledge of Scratch and the programming that runs in the background of their favourite games!
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AuthorWith the computing curriculum becoming more about coding, creation and collaboration over the basics of word processing and document making, The curriculum we deliver needs to change. Here you can see what we are doing to work on and develop this using what we have available to us. . Archives
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