Thursday 21 November 2019

Creative arts and coding with Makey Makeys

Our Lady of Lourdes Seven Hills LTST Clare Willemse introduced Makey-Makeys across the school grades as part of Creative Arts lessons. 

The result was a whole school imaginative exploration of understanding connections between science, coding, electricity and creativity.

  • Year 2 did a Makey-Makey interactive artwork with Year 2 (no scratch)
  • Years 3-4 did basic scratch and groups had to create a project incorporating the Makey-makey as either an interactive artwork, a musical instrument or game controller.
  • Years 5-6 went a bit further with scratch and had the choice to create the same options as Stage 2 as well as a dance board. Some groups chose to create an actual video game in scratch but didn't quite incorporate the makey-makey.
Watch the video to see the depth and breadth of learning across the school with the Makey Makeys.


The rubric with curriculum connections can be seen below or click here to see full doc.