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WeDo 2.0: Make a Sound Machine

First: Choosing

We chose "Make a Sound Machine," aka ICE-CUBE. Coding ICE CUBE, we will teach it how to make music and move. Soon, this will have students explore programming variables that make soft sounds, loud sounds, environmental sounds, rhythms, and melodies. Students can even combine projects to make a band as well.

ISTE:

5b) Empower Students to select personally meaningful computational projects.

5.1 b)Learn to recognize where and how computation can be used to enrich data or content to solve discipline-specific problems and be able to connect these opportunities to foundational CT practices and CS concepts.

5.5 c) Use a variety of instructional approaches to help students frame problems in ways that can be represented as computational steps or algorithms to be performed by a computer.

For more info:

https://education.lego.com/en-us/lessons/maker-elementary/make-a-sound-machine/

- Ask students what they think of when hear "sound machine"

-What is their favorite song?

Making ICE CUBE

Second: Assemble

Heather and I wanted to make music, and what better than nature's true melody, a beautiful bird. By using technology, this YouTube video by Mike Lin. We created ICE CUBE, a singing and moving bird. Students can make any type of "sound-making machine" from animals to singing robots.

-Help students assemble

-Use resources like YouTube or pictures/worksheets to assemble

Second: Coding

We needed to code ICE CUBE. By learning and playing around with the WeDo 2.0 app, we created this code to make ICE CUBE wobble.

-Help students play with WeDo 2.0

Third: Final Product

Youtube- https://youtube.com/shorts/NKuQxdIw3OU?feature=share

- Ask students what they learned about?

-What was their favorite part of this project?

-What would they do next for their next project?

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