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Create an interactive model that explores the ocean's influence on weather and climate.

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MaKey MaKey - An Invention Kit for Everyone

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BONUS: Touch the "Earth" with the index finger on your left hand. With your right hand hold your partner's left hand. Have your partner touch an arrow on your Makey Makey with her/his right hand index finger. The piano should play a note. Explain why the piano works using this strategy.

SUPER BONUS: Repeat the same activity as described above but add MORE people holding hands. How many people can you add AND have the piano play?

Remember the following whenever you work with the Makey Makey: "I want to control the ______ key on the Makey Makey. How will I connect that key to EARTH?"

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BONUS: Touch the "Earth" with the index finger on your left hand. With your right hand hold your partner's left hand. Have your partner touch an arrow on your Makey Makey with her/his right hand index finger. The piano should play a note. Explain why the piano works using this strategy.

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Sketch instruments with pencil and paper. Connect your artwork to the Makey Makey and jam out!
Gather materials

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Scratch is a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.

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With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations - and share your creations with others in the online community. Scratch helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively - essential skills for life in the 21st century.

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Students will create algorithms, practice digital citizenship, utilize collaborative researching tools, and use innovative technology to create a functioning prototype.

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air masses, ocean currents, equator, longitude, latitude, air pressure, conductive, destructive, constructive, weathering, erosion, economic disaster, weather, climate, satellite imagery, meteorology

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Please note that the following list is not exhaustive and does not include every notable storm in history.

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If you are recording poetry, make sure your voice matches the mood and tone of the poem you are sharing. Practice what you will record multiple times before recording.

Makey Makey Sampler

You can record your voice samples in our Sampler app and connect straight to Makey Makey for a plug and play experience!

Click on the microphone to record. Press and hold to record. (You have a limit of five seconds)

Press to test your sample, and click on the sound wave to trim.

Name your sample and save it to the library. (It will only be stored for this session, so if you like all your recordings and want to use them again. Make sure to export your sample pack once you have all your samples recorded and placed on the sampler.(Video tutorial)

Place all your recordings on the sampler where you want each Makey Makey input to play.

Then Export your sample pack.

Save the exported sample pack to your drive our Google Drive and then you can upload your sample pack when you are ready to plug it to your poster.

Makey Makey Interactive Poster App

Want to add your own images and your own sounds but aren't ready to code yet? You can plug and play with our Makey Makey Interactive Poster App.

To add a sound or visual to a key press, select a key, click on the corresponding button. You can also select the keypress you want by using your Makey Makey!

On the right side you have a visual creator and an audio creator. With a keypress selected (the selected keyboard key turns yellow when selected), click on the upload arrow in the visual creator to add a web, jpg, png, or gif file. Or click on the audio creator to upload a wav or mp3 file.

Make sure to allow the app to use your camera and microphone .

Once you've uploaded a photo to a key press, you will see it in the visual creator on the right hand side of the screen. Enabled your microphone and hold the button to record sound, just like in our Sampler app.

With your sound and image uploaded, now when you hold down the up arrow key, the picture and sound you added will display in the screen area. Add up to 18 images and sounds. When you have all of your images and sounds mapped, you can click the download arrow in the center of the screen to export the entire poster and re-upload as needed.

Remapping Makey Makey Mouse Controls for Makey Max

With our Makey Makey Max Backpack, you can have up to 18 inputs with one Makey Makey!

(Click to this guide for full remapping instructions for Makey Max.)

Scratch

If you want to code your project, you can use Scratch as a free block-based programming environment. In Scratch, pick a sprite, and open the sounds tab. (Your sprite can be an image you uploaded or a sprite from the Scratch sprite libraries.)

In the sounds tab, you can upload your own mp3 or wav file, load a surprise sound, or record a sound by clicking the microphone button. If you recorded a sound in Audacity, then upload your mp3 here in the sounds tab. Or follow directions below to record your sound in Scratch.

Once you click the microphone to record or upload a sound, you can edit your sound and add effects. Make sure to name your sound so you will be able to code key presses easily.

Now that you have sounds in Scratch, you can easily code the sound to play on a key press. Make sure to assign each sound to a different key press so you can trigger sounds with different Makey Makey inputs.

To trigger sounds with a key press, you can use the "when key pressed" hat from the yellow "events" palette.

Or you can add the Makey Makey Extension and use the "When Makey Makey Key pressed" hat.

Coding Multiple Sounds on Multiple Sprites

In our Black History Month Scratch Project, we coded each sprite to play the reading of a poem. Since the poems are long, we added the code "stop all sounds" under the triggering event so that the sounds will not play on top of one another.

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This activity allows you to combine Makey Makey and Scratch to create an interactive poster. While designing your own interactive poster, you will investigate how circuits work. Plus, you'll begin to think about user interface design and how it is important when designing physical computing projects.

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