Maker Project

In EDTECH 597 this week, we had to create a Maker Style Unit.  Over the last three weeks the professor encouraged us to create Scratch projects with a unified theme.  Since I decided to focus on multiplication, I discovered that two of my projects did not fit and therefore I had to find a way to make a cohesive unit.

My first step was to create a simple way for students to easily bring up the times tables.  To do this I looked at a few sample projects and created my own modified version of the game Multiples on Scratch.  For my version I decided to use the list idea but instead of having it repeat forever, I decided to repeat the program only 10 times thus showing the times table 1-10 for a chosen number.  The only fault that I have with this game is that the controls might be a bit confusing since in order to allow for a Makey Makey control I had to use the broadcast feature.  In other words, when a user pushes a the program broadcasts a message which I have programmed to interpret as 1.  This would be confusing if using a standard keyboard.
 
I decided to include my Multiples of 3 project because it fit with the theme and the game is easily modified to focus on other numbers.  The final project I decided to include, confused me.  I wanted to include a game that allowed students to focus on random multiplication tables and would allow for Makey Makey controls.  After rereading the instructions, I decided to include a game from another user, RGACoach, which met my needs but was too complicated for me to modify on my own at my current skill level.



Once I had all three projects, I had to work to tie them altogether in a progressive order and provide ways for integrating the Makey Makey.  The Makey Makey controls that I came up with are fairly similar across the board and involved the students making the necessary controls out of Play Dough.  However, any conductive material would work.

Overall, it was a great unit to work on and I'm proud of what I was able to create.