Interactive Word Wall
Up to 1 hour
Ages 5-10
What Will You Learn?
This is a quick tutorial on how to make your own interactive word wall for your elementary students using Makey Makey and Scratch. Watch this short video by Colleen Graves, author of 20 Makey Makey Projects for the Evil Genius, to learn how to make your own.
Scratch
Remix the Scratch Game that Colleen used to play the sounds in this project.
Makey Makey Classic Inventor's Kit
The original Makey Makey Classic – Named one of Consumer Reports’ “Best Tech Toys of 2014,” “Best of Toy Fair 2014” by Popular Science, and a finalist for Toy of the Year 2016.
Makes STEM Education fun! Start out easy with a banana piano. First setup takes seconds. Then make game controllers, musical instruments, and countless inventions. Advance to additional inputs and multi-key remapping up to 18 keys. Ages 8 to infinity.
Turn everyday objects like bananas into touchpads!
Connect the world around you to your computer! Setup takes just seconds.
Just plug, clip, and play! No programing knowledge needed. No software to install. Works with Mac and Windows.
1000s of possibilities! Draw your own game controller, sneak a cat selfie, and dance like never before.
Ages 8 to infinity.
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Materials:
- Makey Makey
- Carboard
- Colored paper
- Aluminum foil
- Brass fasteners
