Thursday 13 December 2018

E-cards

E-CARDS SENIORS LESSON


Learning Objectives:

  1. To understand how a circuit works
  2. To make a circuit using copper tape that will make a light glow
  3. The card design pro
    To make a suitable Christmas themed Christmas card
Paper circuits were taped down and attached to a battery and LED light.

Some of the finished products





Thursday 6 December 2018

E-textiles

The middle classes had a go out creating some badges using electrical circuits.  There were a few steps to this lesson so we broke them down throughout the day.

The main teaching points were:
1.  understanding how a circuit works
2. Creating and designing a personalised badge for themselves
3. using a conductive thread to sew, to enable the circuit to make the light shine.


The students were very pleased with the way they turned out.  There was a lot of excitement when they turned their switches on and saw that their light came on!

The front of the badges, each had a light.                     A pin was attached to the back.

Thursday 20 September 2018

The Gruffalo- Algorithm



Students will be able to

  • responds to the task of retracing the steps the Mouse took, from the Gruffalo story by breaking the problem down into a set of precise instructions.
  • show the steps in sequence by order in which it happened- as an Algorithm
  • Uses directional language such as Left and Right, up and down and draw arrows to match

 Scanning the QR codes in the forest finding out the next clue.

The Junior syndicates read the picture book The Gruffalo They then went on their own hunt scanning QR codes to get their next clue they retraced the steps the Mouse took.

When they returned to the class they were given a story grid which they needed to show the steps by using directional arrows.


Thursday 6 September 2018

Makey Makey

More Makey Makey

This was a whole day of learnings.  

The object of this lesson was to:  

  • get the students familiar with music notes, names and values
  • introduce the new Scratch 3.0
  • add the new blocks to use makey makey



The outcome of this lesson required the students to:

  •  create a code using scratch to a simple song or tune
  •  connect a makeymakey to create an instrument to play the sound through









Monday 12 February 2018

MAKEY MAKEY

Makey Makey

Students will show that they
  • can identify the inputs and outputs of a system 
  •  understand that when we give a digital device an input, the device processes it and produces an output 
  •  can use an application to create original content.


Our school recently purchased a set of makey makeys.  After teaching the classes how to use scratch I introduced the makey makeys.

I began by showing them an example of a circuit i had made out of carrots, celery, play dough and bananas.  We listened to the each object make a musical note and when joined a closed circuit as a class to produce a sound.

After watching a video clip about makey makey http://makeymakey.com/ we then discussed what objects were insulators and conductors of electricity.

Their task was to find 5 objects from around the school that were conductors of electricity and set them up to produce a closed circuit and to play a tune.

A range of materials were used

Each of the students did this very well.  They had to problem solve if the circuit wasn't working.  Some common mistakes were

  •  not having a wire earthed
  • not touching the earthed wire when they were trying to get sound
  • using a object that wasn't conductive

  • They worked through this very well and progressed on to making music by using on of the makey makey apps.  Piano or bongo drums

Double earthed wires required collaboration




Lead from the pencil worked well



So much engagement from the class

They discovered they could use parts of their bodies- or other peoples!
All that hair came in handy!

Team work for a closed circuit

Honk Honk!





All ages enjoyed this

Playdough made great keys





    SCRATCH
Some of the students who were a bit more competent were able to progress onto scratch.  They were able to use code to make music playing notes on different instruments.





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