Students had great fun using a new activity in our makerspace rotation selection: the augmented reality app, Ballstrike, free and available from the store on Windows 8 tablets. Apparently available on apple devices as well. We only used the free levels, but was very easy to use and students had heaps of fun, while also learning another application of augmented reality.
Month: September 2015
Lego Wedo and Scratch
Lego Wedo and Scratch 2.0 Online Challenge
New 3D printer has arrived
Lego Wedo: pushing more creativity
Good cheat sheet on Lego Wedo with Scratch and Makey Makey:
https://readingpower.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/319ee-mastercheatsheet.pdf
Good idea for challenges at: http://kidsengineer.com/?p=646
Below is instruction challenge sheet based on challenge above. Car in image far below was designed, built and completed, including with sensors, using Lego Wedo software they had not used before, so car stopped when anything in front of it, by 1 group (13 years old), but other 4 groups did not complete in 45 mins, so need more time or easier challenge:
Sticky Circuit Cards
Hour of Code Activities
Makeymakey Activities
Putting the challenge into littlebits
How to move from consumption to creation? Use challenges:
See page 20 for torch / flashlight challenges. Challenging students to make a torch with littlebits works really well: need toilet rolls, clear paper cups, tape, rubber, bands, scissors, felt pens, as well as littlebits. Then get them to make waving hand as on sheet below. Found they then also were more creative and came up with ideas like using propeller with bell attached to play jingle bells. Page 20 of Educators Guide below is good.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/littleBits_pdfs/littleBitsEducatorsGuide_FINAL.pdf
More challenges at:
https://lb-community.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/supporting_file/asset/263/LittleBitsChallengeDeluxe.pdf
Hummingbird robot in action
Here is our first hummingbird robot in action.
https://youtu.be/LPjGRNHhczs?list=PLxnBlY3ablCkVO3_fwYIbWzs0Hb9lpfgG
AHS Makerspace 