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LESSON PLANS AND VIDEOS COMING SOON

Banana Piano

Develop or expand/remix to 
a 2-octave piano in Scratch, hook up some fruit, and play.

Operation Game

Use Scratch, a cardboard box, aluminum foil, and tweezers
to make an Operation game with your own sound effects.

Random Answers

Code a system in Scratch to  give random silly answers (verbal and on screen) to the question of the day. (Example, what is my spirit animal? What will I be when I grow up?)

Scratch Arcade

Find Scratch games and remix the keystrokes
 to work with Funkey.

Conductivity

In computer or freedom mode, test the conductivity of different items: fruits, candy, vegetables, water, cookies, paper clips, Play Dough, clay, bread, pencil lead, etc.

Gummy Contest

Dangle gummy worms on a string from a rod just above mouth level. Students race to
see who can eat theirs first. Code in Scratch so that
each gummy worm has a different sound effect.

Ceiling Music

Use Scratch sound effects, conductive thread, aluminum foil squares on the ceiling, and helium balloons
to "play the ceiling."

Faux Bell Choir

Use  the freedom mode to play a tune on classroom Funkeys in the manner of a bell choir.

Yes or No

Code or remix a "Yes or No"
or True/False game in Scratch and design a mechanical 
device (such as a lever or
a pendulum) that can be triggered to make the choice.

Floor Piano

Use Scratch, aluminum foil, cardboard and duct tape to build a 2-octave floor piano
like in the movie, Big.

Stair Piano

Use Scratch or freedom

mode and create a "stair

piano" from aluminum

foil and duct tape.

Name That Tune

In computer or freedom mode, students pick out tunes on
the Funkey. They can take it
to the next level by playing "Name That Tune" and/or devising a method of notating the Funkey music.

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