The Ultimate Guide to Makey Kurt Bagg Connections

The Ultimate Guide to Makey Kurt Bagg Connections Engineering Outreach Queen’s University www. queensconnections. ca @QEng. Connections - Queen's Engineering Experience Program

Simple Circuitry Draw a circuit that includes : 1) A Power source 2) A load (ie. Light, motor, etc. ) 3) A switch

Makey and Circuitry

What is a Makey?

What is a Makey? Makey is an invention kit for the 21 st century. Turn everyday objects into touchpads and combine them with the internet. It’s a simple invention kit for beginners and experts doing art, engineering, and everything in between. The Makey allows students to become hardware engineers and solve real-world design challenges by providing a landscape that fosters curiosity and creates vibrant learners.

Building the Makey

Conductive Materials

Makey Piano www. makey. com/piano

Makey & Scratch https: //scratch. mit. edu/projects/24863616/

Interactive Drawings

Design Thinking & The Makey Design Thinking is an approach to addressing challenges in a thoughtful and fun way, where you get to apply 21 st Century learning skills collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, and communication - to your own work as you develop new solutions for your classroom, school, and community

Design Thinking – 5 p’s Problem Empathy, focusing problem, value to user, stakeholders, constraints, success criteria Present Document, report, share, reflect Product Test, evaluate, refine, compare to problem Plan Social, Environmental, Economic, Safety Considerations Research, standards, idea generation, compare & evaluate ideas, select Prototype Model, build, simulate, calculate, code, analyze

Example Design Thinking Projects

Example Design Thinking Projects Etch A Sketch 1. 0 Remix https: //scratch. mit. edu/projects/284266048/

Example Design Thinking Projects

Makey in the Classroom • How could we use Makey in our classrooms? • What are some possible curriculum links we could make with Makey? • What are large scale school wide projects?

Project Leo (Love Each Other) https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=QHWxota. UQsc

Makey Resources • https: //makey. com/ - Makey Company Website • https: //labz. makey. com/ - Lesson Plans, Teacher Resources • https: //drive. google. com/file/d/1 Zr. Ljf. P 0 ysb 0 k 0 y 5 FBu-q. B 4 Ndup 5 Mj-v. S/view - Educators Guide to Makey • https: //cdn. shopify. com/s/files/1/0162/8612/files/lesson-plans. pdf - Sample Lesson Plans • https: //www. techykids. com/category/projects/makey-makey/ - Makey Projects • https: //www. kqed. org/mindshift/29642/how-to-use-design-thinking-in-class-step-by-step Design Thinking in the Classroom