{"id":9663,"date":"2023-12-06T11:47:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T00:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/ssc\/?post_type=article&#038;p=9663"},"modified":"2023-12-06T11:47:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T00:47:19","slug":"stem-games","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/ssc\/article\/stem-games\/","title":{"rendered":"STEM games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During\u00a0STEM\u00a0lessons\u00a0Year\u00a05\u00a0students were challenged to take a familiar board game and recreate this using the Makey Makey kits. The students designed their own gameboards and then coded elements of their game using Scratch. They then connected these to the Makey Makey to make the game more interactive. Other\u00a0Year\u00a05\u00a0classes then visited to play these games. Some of these games included Monopoly, Twister and Operation. The students&#8217; problem solving skills were tested to ensure their games worked and lots of fun was had by all when playing them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2023\/12\/IMG_3448.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"9667\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2023\/12\/IMG_3448-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9667\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2023\/12\/IMG_3449.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"9665\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2023\/12\/IMG_3449-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9665\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2023\/12\/IMG_3451.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"9664\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2023\/12\/IMG_3451-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9664\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2023\/12\/IMG_3462.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"9666\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2023\/12\/IMG_3462-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9666\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Wendy Anetter<\/strong><br>Year\u00a05\u00a0Teacher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During\u00a0STEM\u00a0lessons\u00a0Year\u00a05\u00a0students were challenged to take a familiar board game and recreate this using the Makey Makey kits. The students designed their own gameboards and then coded elements of their game using Scratch. They then connected these to the Makey Makey to make the game more interactive. Other\u00a0Year\u00a05\u00a0classes then visited to play these games. Some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[5],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-9663","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_category-gioia-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/ssc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/9663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/ssc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/ssc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/ssc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/ssc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/ssc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=9663"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/ssc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=9663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}