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Overview:
The e-Motion Monster is the circuit playground designed in a 'monster' used to help younger students, or students who have trouble expressing their emotions, express themselves and learn about emotions and how they make other people feel! It is also a good outlet to have students express how they feel in a non-destructive, safe manor. The monster is made up of paper or whatever material you have accessible with a hole in the chest where the circuit playground goes. The students will code different light patterns depending on their emotion and have the circuit playground light up the monsters chest. This is a fun project to help students learn about emotions and how to code!
Grade Level:
K-2
All ages of Special Education
Learning Objectives:
Students will be able to...
Express their emotions through coding
Discuss what their peers emotions are
Recognize what color represents a certain emotion
Identify the colors with the emotions
Explain what a certain emotion means and how it makes you feel
Standards:
Goal 1 of SEL:
A. Identify and manage ones emotions and behavior
Younger Elementary: 1A.1a. Recognize and accurately label emotions and how they are linked to behavior.
B. Recognize personal qualities and external supports.
Younger Elementary: 1B.1a. Identify ones likes and dislikes, needs and wants, strengths and challenges.
Goal 2 of SEL:
A. Recognize the feelings and perspectives of others.
Younger Elementary: 2A.1a. Recognize that others may experience situations differently from oneself.
Supplies:
Card stock or construction paper (1 per student)(1 for emotion chart)
Markers (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Pink, white/gray)
Scissors
Circuit playground and cord (1 of each per student)
(optional) felt to make the monsters texturized, good for sensory
computer/chrome book/I-pad to hook up to the circuit playground (1 per student)
Steps for making the monster and emotion poster:
Cut out the desired shape of the monster
Use the circuit playground and trace out the space of it on the center (or chest) of the monster
Carefully cut along the traced line so the circuit playground can be seen in the monster
Move the circuit playground and decorate your monster
I drew a rainbow of all of the colors that are used on the emotion chart around the circuit playground cut out.
Set aside your monster and get another piece of paper (Only teachers need to make the chart)
I suggest using a large piece of paper so it is easily seen around the classroom.
Write on the top of the paper "Emotions=Colors" or some variation of that
List out the colors:Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Pink, white/gray.
These are the only colors on the circuit playground
Next to the right of the colors write "=[emotion]"
Example: Red = angry, mad, frustrated
Then highlight or outline the color name with the corresponding color
Hang the poster in your room where every student can see it or access it
Back to the monster: Tape or stick down the monster on the edge of the desk
Leave room for the cord and circuit playground to run through
Place the circuit playground in the area where you cut and tape it to the desk
The cord can either be taped to the desk as well or placed in a desk or designated area and attached to the playground when needed
Steps for Coding:
Click on "New Projects"
Connect you circuit playground with the cord to your device
Click on the gear symbol on the top right corner
Scroll down and click pair device and click on the rest button on the circuit playground
This should connect your circuit to your device
These next instructions can vary depending on how young your students are or how you want them to code certain emotions
For a simple code for all emotions you can:
Click on the Pink 'input' block
Scroll down until you see 'on switch move left'
Click and drag on that block and move it over to the empty space
Then click on the blue 'light' block
Click and drag the first option 'show ring' block and move it over and connect it into the 'on switch move left' block
From here students can click on the circles in the 'show ring' block and change their colors to express how they feel
Once a color or colors are chosen click the pink download button in the bottom left corner
Once it is downloaded you can switch the switch on the circuit playground to the left to have the colors displayed
For each emotion to be triggered by a certain sensor on the circuit you can:
(These are optional and do not need to be followed accordingly)
Click on the Green 'loops' block and select the 'forever' block
Then go and click on the light blue 'logic' block and select the 'if true, then' block
Connect the light blue block inside the green block
Then click on the Pink 'input' block and select 'button A is pressed'
Connect that pink block into the part of the light blue block that says true
Then click on the blue 'light' block and select the first option, 'show ring'
Connect that blue block inside of the light blue block
Once all blocks are connected the students can click on the circles in the 'show ring' block and change their colors to express how they feel
Once a color or colors are chosen click the pink download button in the bottom left corner
Once it is downloaded you can press button A on the circuit playground to have the colors displayed
You can code all of the sensors and have them represent a different color if preferred so the student doesn't have to recode their emotion each time.
e-Motion monster steps in pictures:
Coding emotions into the circuit playground:
Video of multiple sensors being used with circuit (involves last picture above):
Final Project Outcome Examples:
Emotions = sad and angry
Emotions = Happy and Excited
Emotions = Tired
By: Belle Reid
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