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Fifth Graders “Makey Makey” a Public Service Announcement to Help Protect the Earth

5/25/2017

 
Submitted by Katie Schmidt 
5th Grade Teacher, Rodgers Forge Elementary
​Have you heard of this thing called a Makey Makey?  If not, you should definitely check it out.  When fifth graders at Rodgers Forge created PSAs in Scratch, they wanted a cool and interactive way to share them with their classmates.  Enter…the Makey Makey!  It’s a simple device that turns everyday objects into a touchpad.  Students built an object of their choice in the school’s makerspace, such as a remote control or a TV frame with different buttons on the front, and they hooked up the Makey Makey wires to conductive points on their object (using foil).  When someone pushes on each of the conductive “buttons” they created on their object, a different part of their PSA played in Scratch.  Check out this video to see more about this project.
“Special thanks go out to Zach Zayner from Workbench for supporting us through the implementation of this awesome project!”

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