Professional Learning Resource Guide
Interactive Learning Exhibits
Design a small interactive artifact that helps a visitor learn, notice, hear, explain, or think more deeply about a content-area idea. Use Makey Makey, micro:bit, Scratch, audio, or digital slides to connect classroom content with physical interaction.
Recommended Learning Path
Move from a content goal to one dependable interaction, then test the experience from a visitor’s point of view.
Choose the Learning Idea
Select one concept, event, process, text, data set, or vocabulary group that visitors should understand more deeply.
Choose the Visitor Interaction
Decide what the visitor will touch, press, move, select, hear, or observe. Keep the first interaction simple and clear.
Select a Tool Pathway
Use Makey Makey for touch inputs, micro:bit for messages and sensors, or digital tools for clickable and no-hardware versions.
Build One Working Connection
Create one input and one output before expanding. Confirm that the visitor action reliably triggers the intended response.
Add Meaningful Content
Write or record the explanation, question, comparison, sound, image, or data display that supports the learning goal.
Test With a Visitor
Ask another person to use the exhibit without coaching. Revise the instruction, interaction, and explanation based on what they notice.
What Participants Will Practice
The session blends content planning, creative technology, visitor-centered design, and iterative problem solving.
Connect Technology to Content
Start with a learning goal and select an interaction that helps a visitor notice or understand the idea.
Prototype With Accessible Tools
Use Makey Makey, micro:bit, Scratch, audio, or digital slides to create a small working experience.
Write for a Visitor
Create a clear instruction and a concise explanation so the exhibit can be explored independently.
Test and Revise
Observe how another person uses the artifact, identify confusion or missed opportunities, and improve the design.
Simple Build Goal
Create an artifact with five essential parts:
Tool Pathway Guide
Choose the pathway that best matches the visitor interaction, available equipment, and time.
Touch and Conductivity
Makey Makey
Works well for touch-to-hear posters, interactive maps, vocabulary boards, timelines, music or sound stations, and physical exhibits connected to Scratch or audio.
Sensors and Displays
micro:bit
Works well for scrolling messages, button choices, data displays, wearable badges, movement interactions, and radio communication between devices.
Flexible or No Hardware
Digital Tools
Work well for clickable timelines, digital maps, interactive slides, Scratch animations, student narration, multimedia exhibits, and backup versions.
Build Resources
Use the online guides for setup and extension ideas, and keep the printable build menu available during planning.
Coding Every Day
Makey Makey Resource Guide
Learn setup, circuits, conductivity, Scratch connections, and classroom project pathways.
Coding Every Day
micro:bit Resource Guide
Move from a first program into sensors, inputs, outputs, data, radio, and physical computing.
Printable Companion
Interactive Artifact Build Menu
Open the original workshop handout for printing, small-group planning, or offline reference.
Create Your Build Plan
- What content-area idea should the visitor understand?
- What will the visitor touch, press, move, select, hear, or observe?
- Which tool pathway best supports that interaction?
- What instruction will help the visitor begin independently?
- What explanation or response will make the learning visible?
- How will you test and revise the experience?