Date: April 23, 2020
Pinnguaq
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Pinnguaq Association, a not-for-profit organization, incorporates STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) into unique learning applications that promote storytelling, health, wellness and growth with rural and remote communities. At its core, Pinnguaq embraces diversity and creates opportunities in order to empower all people.
Welcome to Pinnguaq at Home for the week of April 27. This week families will continue to explore STEAM lessons and activities surrounding the environment.
Have fun making a Bee hotel and learning more about the water filtration water.
For the Youth, learn some new tricks in Scratch and Twine!
Be sure to share with us what you’re making. Send us pictures @Pinnguaq on Twitter and Facebook.
Create a Water Filter from Recycled and Natural Materials
This activity provides an opportunity for learners to investigate problems that exist in the world today, and are challenged to use simple materials to design a solution. Learners will use recycled materials and natural materials found outside, to create a water filter device.
Flip and Match Activity Design
Flip and match games are a great way to introduce vocabulary to a student or explore a new topic of study. The beauty of a game like Memory is that it is very simple to play and even simpler to make.
Player control in Scratch: Adding acceleration, speed, and friction
In this lesson students will be introduced to the techniques of adding acceleration, speed, and friction in Scratch!
Responsibilities to Mother Earth: Interactive Storytelling with Scratch
Learning how to make interactive stories in Scratch.
Scratch Remix: Make your own game
These two Scratch video tutorials will walk you through a couple of ways to create a new game in Scratch by remixing an existing game.
Construct A Bee Hotel Activity
Construct A Bee Hotel allows learners to explore how they can help positively impact the environment that surrounds them and society as a whole, using simple materials.
Construct A Bee Hotel
In this lesson students will construct a bee hotel to help worker bees find a safe spot to rest during their busy days.
Hungry Shark Scratch Game for Beginner Game Designers
Learners will design a predator-prey style game in Scratch where a shark sprite will move around the screen gobbling up a bunch of fish!