Creating Confidence with Circuits and Code

Waitsfield Elementary School

EMMA Visits

Waitsfield Elementary ��October 10 - 16, 2018

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Contact info

Lucie deLaBruere

@techsavvygirl

ldelabruere@gmail.com

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www.minimakerbus.com

www.CreateMakeLearn.org

www.LearningwithLucie.com

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All Groups K-6 - Phenomena

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• Explore Circuits - via Energy Stick activity
• Experience Circuits via Makey Makey experience

Lower Elementary (K-2)

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• Create Characters that glows
• Draw/Color the Habitats that the character lives in
• Create Sound Shakers of sounds we might hear in the story
• Code Robots to travel to different StoryScape
• Listen and Add to a Story inspired by the StoryScape

Upper Elementary (3-6)

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• Build the Interactive StoryScape Box
• Code Digital Sounds for the StoryScape
• Create and Add a Glowing Standalone Prop
• Create and Add Additional Artifacts Triggered by Touch
• Record and Code a Story Starter, Sound Effects, and Mood Sounds to inspire an Amazing Story

Culminating Events

Multi-grade teams record a story created with their StoryScape.

Teachers and students brainstorm ideas of ways they can use their StoryScape for different types of learning (or)

Ways they could use their new skills for creating additional fun hands on learning experiences.

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Grades K-2

Create an Amazing StoryScape of a land that can inspire an amazing movie or story. We’ll use light and sound to create a mood, a message, or an idea.

Grades K - 2

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Day 1

EXPLORE

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How do Energy Sticks work? �

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Let’s make a human circuit

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What’s going on here?

Why does it do that?

Can we make a human circuit?

How big can we make a human circuit?

What parts of humans can be used to conduct electricity.

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Open Circuit

What happens when we let go?

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Let’s make a human switch?

Conductors and Insulators

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Will electricity pass through a carrot?

How can we find out?

Let’s predict!

Grab an item from the basket?

Will electricity pass through it?

Let’s test our predictions?

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How long a circuit can we make?

How long a circuit can you make where no two humans are touching each other?

Grades K - 2

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Day 2

Starting our StoryScape

Place the character to your story mat.

Start your story

In a land far far away there lived….

Create a Character

Create a Character that lights up.

Which part of his body will glow?

In the story, does an event trigger your character to glow?

What does it mean when your character glows? Are they happy, scared, hungry, etc.)

Can you make your LED light?

Explore: Make a safe battery holder

Our goal is to light an LED with a coin cell battery and then make a battery holder that keeps our battery SAFELY covered so it could not be easily accessed by younger learners.

Can we make it so the LED’s can be removed and added to conserve energy?

Can we make it so it stands up and does not fall over?

Button Battery Safety

Never Never put a battery in your mouth or near your mouth!

Dispose of all batteries in a safe way! Ask a grownup where to dispose of it safety.

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More info about battery safety.

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Create a character that glows

Pick up a small cup.

Select 3 things from the craft table to use in your creation.

K. Create a character so the body lights up.

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Create a Character that glows

Grades 1-2

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Keep the main part of the inside of your character as empty as possible (to hold a robot)�

Create a character so any part of the character lights up.�

How would you change the design of the battery holder?

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Engineering a solution

How can you solve this problem.

Body fairly empty.

Save energy

Squishy Circuits

BONUS Challenge

Squishy Circuits

Bonus Challenge

(Optional possibility)

Grades K - 2

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Day 3

Drawing your Habitats

Tell us more about where your character lives.

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All around him/her, ____ could see that this was a wonderful place to live because it was filled with _______ and ________.

Can you draw some of the things we would see if we visited this land far far away?

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EXPLORE �Sounds

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Let’s make a sound shaker that helps us hear a sound from your story.

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One day ___ was looking around this wonderful place and suddenly s/he heard a noise!

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Creating Sound Shakers

Pick a container

Pick 4 things that are the same?

Add them to your container?

Are the sounds different or the same?

Change the sound your sound shaker makes.

Decorate your Sound Shakers

Decorate your Sound Shakers and add them to your Story Mats.

Tell us a story about your character that includes your sound!

Grades K - 2

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Day 4

Code a Traveling Robot

Adopt a robot that travels through your story mats.

Program your robot to travel to a new story mat.

When you get to a new mat. Listen to the new story.

Tell us what you think happens next.

Grades 3-6

Create an Amazing StoryScape of a land that can inspire an amazing movie, story, or video game We’ll use light and sound to create a mood, a message, or an idea.

Grades 3-4

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Day 1

EXPLORE

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How do Energy Sticks work? �

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Let’s make a human circuit

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What’s going on here?

Why does it do that?

Can we make a human circuit?

How big can we make a human circuit?

What parts of humans can be used to conduct electricity.

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Open Circuit

What happens when we let go?

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Let’s make a human switch?

Conductors and Insulators

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Will electricity pass through a carrot?

How can we find out?

Let’s predict!

Grab an item from the basket?

Will electricity pass through it?

Let’s test our predictions?

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How long a circuit can we make?

How long a circuit can you make where no two humans are touching each other?

Learn more about it

EXPLORE

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How might we use science and computer science to create to communicate a mood, an idea, or a message?�

Tomorrow we’ll learn how. Can you bring in something conductive to help us explore?

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Sneak Preview

Grades 3-6

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Day 2

EXPLORE

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How might we use science and computer science to create to communicate a mood, an idea, or a message?�

Can you change the objects in this interactive display?

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Physical Computing

Setup your own Musical Invention

Makey Makey Piano

Exploring the Code

Let’s take a look at the Code.

Can we change the code so that your objects make different sounds?

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Join the Waitsfield Elementary Studio

Find our Studio

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Select a Project

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Look Inside

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Remix

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Save/Rename Copy

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EXPLORE

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How might we use science and computer science to create to communicate a mood, an idea, or a message?�

Can you change the code to create new sounds?

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Physical Computing

Recording our own Sounds

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Change the interactive display to include your own objects as TRIGGERS and sounds from Scratch and your own recordings as events.

Remix Add new Sounds

Inspiration

Watch the video to the right?

What message did they communicate?

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Grades 3-6

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Day 3

Learning to Code

Algorithm

Sequence

Events

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Building onto our Waitsfield �Elementary School Story Scapes

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Look at the Story Starters created by your youngers peers. Adopt one. Create a Cardboard Prop that Talks or Makes a Sound to create a mood for this story�

Using a straw, Brad, Wire, and Alligator Clips, create a Prop (Flower as example) that can be used as a trigger an event with Code. The event will be Code that plays a sound using Scratch. What Mood, Message, or Idea did your prop communicate?

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Grades 3-6

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Day 4

What color is your Light?

Props that Glow

Create a prop that glows to add to your story scape ��(such as a fun glow Tree or Lamp Post) using

AAA battery, straws, LED, copper tape, craft supplies.��

Stand Up Glow Props

Replace this with instructions and prototype examples for Glowing artifacts that stand up and can be added to the Story Maps.

Squishy Circuits

Bonus Challenge

(Optional possibility)

Grades 5-6

Bonus Challenge:

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Paper Circuits

Apply: Make Your Town Glow

http://createmakelearn.blogspot.com/2017/03/march-is-for-making-march-1.html

Learn more about how Swanton Students Made Their Town Glow

What Lights You Up

Fold your bookmark in 4

Draw a picture of What lights you up on 1 of the 4 rectangle

Facing the edge of the paper.

It can be a waying, a picture,

Fold and Poke

Fold your bookmark

Poke a hold where the light will go

Squishy Circuits

BONUS Challenge

What color is your Light?

Squishy Circuits with younger learners

Can we turn a light on with Playdough?

What happens when your playdough touches?

Create a character that lights up?

Using insulators

How might we use insulators to help us make a creature or character that lights up?

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Use your Imagination

Overall Schedule

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Session 1 OL - Kickoff - Phenomena (Energy Sticks & Makey Makey)

Session 1 K-2 Kickoff - Phenomena (Energy Sticks - Unplugged Coding)

Session 2 OL - Intro to Physical Computing / Scratch/ Makey Makey

Session 2 K-2 Create a Character for a StoryScape

Session 3 OL- Create a Story Scape (Record Stories and Digital Sounds)

Session 3 K-2 Create a Habitat and Sound Shaker for a StoryScape

Session 4 OL -Add a Prop that Glows to the Story Scape

Session 4 K-2 - Code a Traveling Robot through the StoryScape World

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Day 1 Schedule

Day 1

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8:40 - 9:40

HALE (3rd/4th)

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9:50 - 10:50 GREENLEAF (5th/6th)

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10:50 - 11:50 BELKNAP (3rd/4th)

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12:15 - 12:50 BEATTIE (K)

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12:55 - 1:40

YOUNG (1st/2nd)

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1:40 - 2:25

HUBBARD (1st/2nd)

Day 2

8-9 BELKNAP

(3rd/4th, session 2)��** Create some new sounds for your creation.

Scratch

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9:50 - 10:50 VAN DINE (5th/6th, session 1)

Take a non conductive elements and make it conductive..

Or make it longer.��

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10:50 - 11:25 YOUNG (1st/2nd, session 2)�Make 18 characters that glow

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12:30 - 1:15

BEATTIE (K, session 2)�Make 18 characters that glow

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1:25 - 2:25 HALE 3rd/4th (session 2)

Create some new sounds for the Makey Makey

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36 characters done (k2)

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Day 3

7:50 - 8:50

HALE

(3rd/4th, session 3) *

Create Pizza box

Create a sound to set the mood… with a prompt…

In a land far far away

record..

And 3 fun sounds..

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8:55 - 9:35

BEATTIE (K, session 3)�Create a sound shaker

To go with your creature

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9:40 - 10:40 GREENLEAF (5th/6th, session 2)

Create new sounds for Makey Makey

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10:40 - 11:25

HUBBARD (1st/2nd, session 2) �Make 18 characters that glow

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12:15 - 1:15

VAN DINE

5th/6th (session 2)

Create new sounds for creation

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1:25 - 2:25 BELKNAP 3rd/4th (session 3)*�Add 4 more buttons to pizza box..

New Prompt..

New sounds…

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18 new characters done

54 total characters

Now we have 10 sound scapes with 2 sides done..

18 sound shakers

Each soundscape gets 5-6 characters

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Day 4

8-9 GREENLEAF (5th/6th, session 3)*

Add Side 3 to the Interactive sounds boxes

Add more fun sides

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8:55 - 9:35

BEATTIE (K, session 4)�Have their robots travel to different worlds..

Record a story of what’s happening there..

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9:40 - 10:40 VAN DINE (5th/6th, session 3)*

Finish Side 4 of thePizza Box.

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10:40 - 11:25

YOUNG (1st/2nd, session 3) Create a sound shaker

12:15 - 1 HUBBARD (1st/2nd, session 3) Create a Sound Shaker

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1:20 - 2:25 BELKNAP

(3rd/4th, session 4)

Create a Glow Prop for the for the Story Scapes… (Tall straws)

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36 more sound shakers

Total 54 sound shakers

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All 4 sides of the sound boxes will be done…

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1 Recorded Movie for OL

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1 Recorded Movie for K2

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Day 5

7:50 - 9:05

GREENLEAF (5th/6th, session 4)

Create a glow prop for the storyScape

Record a Story/Voicethread?

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�9:15 - 10:30

VAN DINE (5th/6th, session 4)

Create a Glow Prop for Story / Record a story

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10:40 - 11:25

YOUNG (1st/2nd, session 4)

Robots travel through the lands on a StoryTelling Adventure

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2:15 - 1 HUBBARD (1st/2nd, session 4) Robots travel through the lands.. Storytelling adventure``

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1:10 - -2:25 HALE (3rd/4th, Session 4)

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Create a Glow Prop for the SoundScape

(Tall Staws..

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Create a Story.

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2 more recorded stories for k2

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3 completed storyscape and recoreded movies..

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