Year 5 STEM activities

This term the students were developing their coding and creative skills. Students were required to design a game, then build the game. Once the game was built, students used the Makey Makey to code and allow their game boards to become interactive.

Throughout the year we’ve participated in STEM lessons where we’ve learnt about a variety of digital topics including coding, input and output devices, binary numbers and this term Makey Makeys. In small groups we’ve made board games and attached Makey Makeys that we’ve coded to be controlled by our laptop. This task has taught us skills of problem solving, creativity, teamwork and of course  how to use a Makey Makey. From not knowing what a Makey Makey was to coding sounds onto it; it is clear that we’ve all learnt something new during this experience.

STEM has given us the opportunity to expand our imagination and knowledge through fun activities like this which with the skills we’ve learnt will benefit our academic journey here at Santa Sabina. A big thank you goes out to our wonderful STEM teacher Mrs Ivancsik who has given us an understanding of how to use a Makey Makey and has guided us through our STEM journey throughout the entire year educating us on all the above as well as how to improve in this amazing learning experience!

5 Kostakis

This term in STEM we used a Makey Makey set to make a board game.Something that I enjoyed at STEM was when my group and I collaborated well together and our board game worked! 

Cadence W

We designed a board game using Makey Makey coding to make it more interactive. Something I enjoyed about making the STEM game was joining with other classes and making new friends and forming new connections by getting into new groups. We had a lot of fun brainstorming and making it. Our original idea was to make a Game Of Life but we had 30 minutes to change our idea. We ended up making a game called ‘ActiveO’ which was our idea. I overall had a lot of fun.

Charlotte H