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- Author:
- William Allred, Carrie Robledo
- Subject:
- Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Level:
- Upper Primary
- Grade:
- 5
- Tags:
- License:
- Creative Commons Attribution
- Language:
- English
5th Grade: Build Your Own Operation Game
Overview
As students study the human body, they can include the different body systems as they build their Operation games. Made from a few household materials, a makey-makey kit and the Scratch website, students can create and play their Operation game.
Instructor Directions
5: Build Your Own Operation Game
| Driving Question / Scenario | How can you use a makey-makey kit, Scratch and a cereal box to create your own Operation game? |
| Project Summary | As students study the human body, they can include the different body systems as they build their Operation games. Made from a few household materials, a makey-makey kit and the Scratch website, students can create and play their Operation game. |
| Estimated Time | 3 Hours or 3 Class Periods |
| Materials / Resources | Aluminum foilAluminum foil tape (optional)Cardstock (used for the cover and the wells)Modeling clay that can dry easilyGluesticksTapeScissorsUtility knife or Exacto knifeCereal boxTweezers or chopstix Makey-makey kitChromebookScratch website |
| Standards | 5.L.1.2 Compare the major systems of the human body (digestive, respiratory, circulatory, muscular, skeletal, and cardiovascular) in terms of their functions necessary for life. |
| Project Outline | |
| Ask | How can you use a makey-makey kit, Scratch and a cereal box to create your own Operation game? |
| Imagine | Imagine you work for a board game company and you’ve been asked to build the next Operation game. Brainstorm a list of characters and body parts that you would like to use for your operation game. |
| Plan | Sketch your character on plain white paper. List your body parts as well. |
| Create | Using cardstock, students draw their character so that they take up the whole sheet of paper. Tape the character to the top of the cereal box. Cut the cereal box open without cutting the box completely in half. Create the body parts using modeling clay. Place the body parts on the character and trace circles around them. Cut the holes for each body part and then wrap the cut-outs in aluminum foil and glue them to the bottom of the box directly beneath the holes where they were cut out. Using strips of cardstock, create the wells for your game by gluing aluminum foil to one side and then tape them into a circle. Glue each well inside the cereal boxes and over the cut-outs. Using the aluminum foil tape, place strips of aluminum foil from each cut-out to the end of box. Make sure you’ve created a complete circuit and all aluminum foil is connected. Place each body part inside of the Operation game. Connect the makey-makey from the cereal box to your Chromebook and launch the Scratch website. Use a pair of tweezers that has been wrapped with aluminum foil and attach them to the makey-makey. |
| Improve | Test your game to make sure it works properly. Be sure that the game will make the buzz sound each time you touch the tweezers to the inside of the well. |
| Closure / Student Reflections | Students can take turns playing each other’s games. |
| Possible Modifications / Extensions | This lesson can be used in 3rd grade as students are studying bones and joints as well as 4th grade when students are studying electricity and circuits. |
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