Scratch & Makey Makey Learning Story - September 2015

Learner: Genevieve, Aimee & Natasha                                     Learning Coach :DWilkes      Date:  Sept 2015- Week 8-10                                                      Learning Area: Technology

Learning Observed

For the past few weeks the learners have been engaged in an innovation station!  The learners were given the choice of 4 provocations which included: creating an Ormibot from scratch, designing an object in Tinkercad to print in the 3D printer, designing a Science experiment or designing a series of code using Scratch and Makey Makey each of which would develop their capabilities.  Genevieve, Aimee and Natasha enjoyed the first week of ‘discovery learning’ where they had some choices of tasks to complete to help them get familiar with the coding programme ‘Scratch’ and the extension kit ‘Makey Makey’ and make connections to their prior knowledge.  They watched tutorials, tried out their predictions and played around with the various affordances of the equipment and programme self-directing some of their learning using this presentation.  Natasha and Aimee loved using the Makey Makey and appreciated that Genevieve did a lot of the code drawing in their design plan.  For Week 9 and 10 the girls worked collaboratively to design and create an animation using the Scratch programme.  In order to piece together the code successfully there was a lot of trialling and prototyping which showed their resilience.  They showed their curiosity, thinking and managing self skills by looking at what others had done and making connections to what they wanted to achieve.  See some of their learning below!

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

add more code to the animation and share it on the LH1 website and/or teach another learner how to code using Scratch complete your design plan more neatly show the code to your family at home keep working on it until it is perfect- use an iBreak?!