Project Description
Students use technology to express emotions through the creation of a Smart Lamp—a color-changing light box that plays music. They learn about the properties of light and sound, how to music is composed, and how to build their own Smart Lamp, including installing a circuit board, Arduino (micro-controller or mini-computer), speaker, and LEDs. Using a touch-screen app and Bluetooth, they program expressions of emotion and set up a remote that switches between moods at a touch of a button. This project supports Social and Emotional Learning through activities that allow students to relate how they feel.
Key Concepts
Beat, Circuit board, Illumination, Emotion, LED, Music, Negative space, Opaque, Primary colors of light, RGB pixel, Shadow, Smart technology, Sound, Transparency, Vibration
Essential Question
How can we use smart technology to express our emotions and moods?
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Summary of Standards
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Summary of Standards
Computer Science Teaching Association Standards (CSTA)
Students will select and operate appropriate software, use appropriate terminology when describing computing systems, model how programs store and manipulate data, and develop plans that describe a program’s sequence of events, goals, and expected outcomes.
Common Core ELA
Students will determine and clarify the meaning of unknown words, recall presented information to answer a question, and participate in collaborative conversations.
Common Core Math
Students will organize, represent, and interpret data.
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
Students will plan and conduct investigations, make observations, use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance, and analyze data from tests of two objects. Students will learn about electromagnetic radiation, information technologies and instrumentation, and wave properties.
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