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MAKERSPACE CLUB 2020 Spring - CANCELLED for the moment
K2-Grade 5
Tuesdays, 4:10-5:45 (March 31, 2020 - May 26) - postponed due to COVID
Instructor: Andrea Blake
Claymation, BeeBots and DigBots! The three best new things in makerspace club.
Claymation is a method of animation in which clay figures are filmed using stop-motion photography. Students in small teams design and create their own characters, backgrounds, story lines and movies. See our last year projects on YouTube: the Very Hungry Caterpillar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-kzklQUO_0 and Friendship Shorts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gKkPbwrPaA&feature=youtu.be
BeeBots are creating quite a buzz at school! Students love creating playmats and learning about sequencing while playing games like chutes and ladders and decoding secret messages with these adorable little robots. And this time they will get a chance to build a huge BEEHIVE for our BeeBots and learn about pollination and the life of bees.
DigBots and GrabberBots are lego based robots. Fun to build, program and control via the Jimu iPad App and even more fun to RACE! For Earth Day, students will enter their bots in a challenge to see who can pick up and sort the most items in our Recycle Arena.
Day 1 - Make a beehive for our BeeBots
Make a beehive for our beebots. Make a hexagon shaped cardboard container for each beebot then assemble a beehive
Program the beebots to go to flowers and “pollinate”, and later “collect” honey. Busy bees and pollination video. .
Extra Activities:
- Curious George Rides a Bike: Float your Boat activity https://tinkergarten.com/activities/what-floats-your-boat
Make a Newspaper Boat:
PBS learning Visit a Recycle Plant: https://mass.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ess05.sci.ess.earthsys.recycleplant/visiting-a-recycling-plant/
MAKERSPACE CLUB 2019 Fall
K2-Grade 5
Tuesdays, 4:10-5:45 (October 1st, 2019 - November 19)
Instructor: Andrea Blake
Design, build, innovate! We have new projects and challenges for you. Make a scribble bot to create unique artwork, frame your artwork and take it home; design and print a 3D keychain, make an erupting volcano, create a rubber band powered boat and race it among rubber duckies; design something that can fly, or use your imagination and surprise me!
Day 1 - Rubber Band Boats
How to make a rubber band powered boat: video and step-by-step instructions.
There is more than one way to do it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDNgV_RVPO0
Day 2 - LED Card Paper Circuits Project
https://www.makerspaces.com/halloween-paper-circuit-projects/
Day 3 - Egg Drop Challenge
Design a contraption to protect an egg. Get some ideas from this video
Day 4 - Marshmallow Giants & Digital Citizenship Week
The Science Behind Marshmallow Science : (video of marshmallow in microwave oven)
" Marshmallows are a whole lot of sugar, water and air bubbles. When you heat marshmallows in a microwave the water molecules vibrate very quickly which makes the water heat up. This in turn warms the sugar (causing it to soften) and warms the air in the bubbles.
Since the warm air is trapped in side of the marshmallow bubbles (think of those marshmallow bubbles like little balloons), the heated air molecules get excited and move around faster, pushing against the marshmallow walls. Since the warmed sugar is softened the hyperactive air molecules push and stretch the sugar. This makes it puff up.If it puffs up too much, some air bubbles burst, and the marshmallow ruptures. Once the marshmallow starts to cool it deflates like a popped balloon."
Digital Citizenship Activities: g.co/interland, CommonsenseMedia.org Device Free Moments
Day 5 - Scribbling Machines
http://makeitatyourlibrary.org/play-technology/make-scribbling-machine#.XFcoelxKg2y
Day 6 - 3D Design with TinkerCad
Kids Design 3D Models: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxIHP5OdYPY
Students brainstormed on what we can print with our green or yellow filaments:
Green things to print:
Green earth, frog, cucumber, grape, tree, grass, monster, unicorn, ghost, dinosaur, dice, shamrock, 4 leaves clover, Celtics stuff
Yellow:
Duck, Sun, Star, Car, School bus, Moon, Sunflower, Lemon, Mango, banana, Pikachu, taco
Day 7 - Thanksgiving, Wampanoag Canoes, Mayflower Boats,
Watch the First Thanksgiving video
Engineering Challenge: Build your own boathouse based on the Mayflower Boat Building Challenge or make a wampanoag canoe and use some of their designs to decorate: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/AdNiiTNtgJV1JRxlLmLTg_aAuU2x42l7kFSzJSVWQYrmqXMyhmPYaew/
Day 8 - DC Battery Airplane or Fan
How to make a battery airplane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RM4hEGIymg
Another idea: Makerspace.com DC Battery Toy Car
Airplane: https://coachdecor.com/40-easy-diy-spring-crafts-ideas-for-kids/40-easy-diy-spring-crafts-ideas-for-kids-15/#main
Extra Activity - Elevator with Pulley
How to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DokBTCWki8
LED Lights Wearable Art or Lantern
Make a necklace or bracelet or a name tag for your backpack, with an LED light and battery.
Challenge: Can you figure out how to make a Chinese lantern with an LED light?
Basic Chinese lantern video
MAKERSPACE CLUB 2019 Spring
K2-Grade 5
Tuesdays, 4:10-5:45 (January 2019)
Instructors: Andrea Blake & William Blake
Design, build, innovate! Our makerspace is stocked and ready for you to explore! Make a junkbot you can take home, code and play with our hackaballs (the only computer you can throw), build a replica of Boston together and learn about our city, make a radio or a motion detector using snap circuits and play with the ozobots! If you like to make things or tinker, you will love this program!
What is engineering? video for kids
25 makerspace projects for kids
Day 1 - LED lights: Decorate your folder
Learn about LED lights, basic circuits, use conductive tape
Day 2 - Firefly Challenge and Snap Circuits
Create a firefly using recycled materials. Can you use one LED light and a coin battery to make it light up?
Learn the basics of electricity with snap circuits.
Day 3 - Make a wobbling bot
How to make a wobble bot - supplies: motor
Day 4 - Lemon powered electricity
See short video on how to power a calculator with a lemon battery.
Day 5 - Tallest Structure Challenge
Each team gets the same recycled materials. Who can build the tallest free standing structure?
Extra activity: It's Chinese new year. you may watch this short video, then make a pig you can take home.
Day 6 - Make a Replica of Boston
Boston - global warming and rising sea levels
National Geographic Kids Climate Change video
Rising Sea Levels in Boston
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh's Plans to Deal with Coastal Flooding: WGBH news. Mayor Martin Walsh on October 17 announced a public-private initiative to protect 47 miles of Boston coastline from the effects of climate—in particular rising sea levels.
Let's build a replica of Boston, including your own neighborhood and home. Show some of the rising sea level problems and the proposed solutions.
Extra Links:
Global Warming (5th graders or parents can discuss this article): https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/23/health/climate-change-report-bn/index.html
KidsBuild! April 6 & 7 - Atlantic Wharf - A hands on, interactive building experience for children, designed by BSA (Boston Society of Architects)
Day 7 - Makey Makey Piano
https://apps.makeymakey.com/piano/
Day 8 - Hackaball: the only computer you can throw
TechTalk Inspiration Video on Hackaball
See "How do I create a game" on hackaball.com/support
Another game you can create: Light up Catch game: https://www.techagekids.com/2017/01/hackaball-light-up-catch-surprise.html?utm_content=buffere3428&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer&fbclid=IwAR21IZ4bhQhEk-4k6keXcLAUxzdMaQQQCAB2M8yuwhlvcfs-y28ENYihtJ4
Can you make your own game?
For example, you can make a Hackaball version of a traditional game, such as bocce ball.
Here is a description of bocce ball
Future Sessions:
Make a Toy Box or Music BoxDominoes Chain Reaction, Rube Goldberg Challenge, Make a Volcano, Make a planet (similar to habitat), and design an animal that would live there. What kind of animal would live there? Make one. DC battery powered toy car: https://www.makerspaces.com/make-a-battery-powered-diy-car/
Dominos Chain Reaction
Links:
Makey makey piano: https://apps.makeymakey.com/piano/
25 makerspace projects for kids
Wikkistix STEM projects: https://www.wikkistix.com/lesson-plans/stem-mayflower-boat-building-challenge/
PBS kids Rethink and Reuse
How to make a wobble bot - supplies: motor
Holiday gifts you can make with your kids: https://www.buzzfeed.com/morganshanahan/clever-upcycled-gifts-to-make-with-kiddos?crlt.pid=camp.rmvJlAMQbjpY
rubegoldberg.com/contest
How to make a vacuum cleaner robot
Craft Projects on Pacon (plaster)
DIY Projects:
Outdoors fun: make a kite, drum, zucchini car, dancing ribbons, hopscotch...
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