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Beginner Course: Makey Makey and Scratch

Play with fundamentals of electronics and coding with Makey Makey in Scratch

Grade Level

Grade 2+

Duration

8 Hours

About the Course

Create fun interactive games and projects like Banana Piano. Young students starting from grade 1 use Makey Makey electronic board and Scratch coding environment while learning fundaments like conductivity, input-output systems etc.


This course includes 12 projects for school teachers to engage primary grade students in STEM education.

Course Outline

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Banana Piano!

30 Minutes

Set up Makey Makey for the first time and experiance the magic of earthing

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Apps for Plug and Play

60 Minutes

Progress in your electronics jouney with Makey makey and experience more playful Apps

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Lesson One: Craft a Simple Circuit

20 Minutes

Learn how a simple circuit works so you can create your first circuit and light your first LED!

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Lesson Two: Hands on a Makey Makey

30 Minutes

Learn how Makey Makey works so you can start inventing! Trigger Makey Makey for piano, build a human circuit, and play with Makey Makey apps.

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Lesson Three: What is Conductive?

30 Minutes

Learn about conductivity and play with it using Makey Makey

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Lesson Four: Draw a Playable Instrument

30 Minutes

Create a paper sketch based musical instrument with Makey Makey

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Lesson Five: Code Your Key Presses in Scratch

45 Minutes

Code key presses in scratch and create fun games with the help of Makey Makey

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Lesson Six: Craft and Code Interactive Stories

45 Minutes

Create buildings for an imagined city and then tell the story of the people who live in your crafted buildings buy coding stories in Scratch.

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Lesson Seven: Code Two Player Games with MakeCode Arcade

45 Minutes

Create arcade game with a new scratch like app Makecode Arcade

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Lesson Eight: Draw and Code a Poem Generator

45 Minutes

In this project, you'll write different parts of a poem, code them in Scratch, and draw a poem generator.

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Makey Makey Interactive Poster

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Cardboard Guitar with Scratch or Makey Makey Sampler

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Course Creator

Makey Makey

Makey Makey started out as a project that was initiated by two students at MIT Media Lab. We believe that everyone can create the future and change the world. So we have dedicated our lives to making easy-to-use invention kits
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