Intermediate Lesson: Interactive Spacetrek Maker Challenge

Lesson Materials

• Makey Makeys
• Alligator Clips
• Tinfoil
• Copper Tape
• Playdoh
• Anything conductive the students want to use for their interactive idea
• Wires
• Big boxes

Inspire

• Inspire students with this video by Hackidemia and TedXYouth@Austin then show them Dong Nguyen’s Global Codeathon Game Space Trek.

Think

• Brainstorm ideas of how they could turn the room or a box into a space ship using Scratch and Makey Makey’s.
  • What sounds might a spaceship make? What could we press in our spaceship that would make those sounds? What could we make with these materials that would control Dong Nguyen’s game more like a real Spaceship?
• Brainstorm ideas as a group so students can piggyback off one another’s ideas.

Make

• Students can map keys by coding keys in Scratch. Program the keys by recording sounds directly into Scratch or upload the sound you would like to use.

• Connect Wires to interactive spaces designed by students.
• Give students time to create sound effects with Scratch.

• Hook Makey Makey ports (the keys your students programmed) to the interactive objects in the room.
• Create signs if needed to prompt interaction.

• Students share with other students
• If possible, take a quick video clip and post to Twitter using #globalcodeathon

Lesson adapted from Make Makey Interactive Room Challenge