Be stoked this school year! Bring Makey Makey to your classroom.
Use Scratch, Makey Makey, and pencil drawings to make your poems interactive!
Pick a poem to visualize |
Find an intriguing poem (or write one.) |
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Create four drawings to visualize poetry |
Create four pencil drawings to help us visualize your poem. Here is an example of a finished poem project. Important Tips
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Record Audio in Scratch |
Record four separate audio samples in Scratch. Here are some of my favorite student projects! Important Tips
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Program Drawings |
Connect your drawings to Makey Makey and program your drawings to "say" your audio samples. What are you Learning?
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Extensions and Other EdTech Poetry Resources |
Go Further with Scratch Go further with Scratch and the writing process by creating a poem generator! Have students write multiple phrases that could accompany drawings and then use the "pick random" block from the operator palette to make their own poetry generator!
Other Resources |
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Drawing, Interactive, Makerspace, ELA, Art