Gimme some ideas regarding the Raspberry Pi :)

[abillybob]

Hey Guys

 

We are looking at integrating and using Raspberry Pi's in the curriculum, what do you all reckon? We are a primary school and would like to find some projects the kids will understand but that is also fun to engage them. I have had a look on Google but I don't think projects like making a burglar alarm is going to be possible!

 

Anyone have any ideas on what can be done with them, I don't want to just shove scratch on them I want to try and do something special!

 

Cheers

Alex

[SimpleSi]

Well .....where to start

1. I believe Scratch is practically perfect for KS2. If there is a G&T computing teacher in the school then possible to do Minecraft/Kodo etc but for 95% of Primaries - Scratch Rules

 

2. Given Rule 1 then Scratch on the Raspberry Pi opens up the world of burglar alarms, traffic lights, Robots, desktop D&T in general

 

Of course, I would say this since I wrote ScratchGPIO

ScratchGPIO5 | CympleCy (SimpleSi)

 

If you haven't tried it yet - give it a whirl and then come back for more info

 

Although the add-on board I want hasn't been built yet (basically same options as a Data Harvest Flow Go Box) the Pimoroni PiBrella is a very useful little ad-on and one of the few that come ready built.

Pibrella | CympleCy (SimpleSi)

 

Another Favorite is the 4Tronix PiDie (as I had a lot of influence in the LED colours) as it can be used for a wide variety of LED projects (Die,Full Traffic Lights inc Pedestrian crossing,Simon Game, noughts and crosses)

PiDie | CympleCy (SimpleSi)

 

I'll stop now

 

Simon

[craynerd]

Minecraft is nice, there is a lot of fun but learning to be done!

 

We have taken a g&t group and made a weather station and linked it to twitter.

 

Why not have 5-6 setup in a corner for research as a cheap free resource for browsing.

[geekgirl]

OCR have some fun school projects that you can do:

(Computing/Computer Science - Raspberry Pi - OCR) .

 

My favourite projects are:

Traffic Lights (http://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/129940-recipe-card-traffic-lights.pdf)

 

Singing Jelly Baby (http://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/125881-recipe-card-singing-jelly-baby.pdf)

[Oaktech]

we made an internet kettle. Partly this allowed us to put the kettle on from anywhere in the school - even from outside. Partly this allowed the ICT dept to teach about the Pi, and about the internet of things.

[PrivacyEnhanced]

The kids will use them in ways you never expected to do things you probably didn't want them to do.

 

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Edited September 12, 2015 by SimpleSi