Design Yourself

By Anqi Wang

This curriculum intends to teach preschool children in China aged four to six years old about body safety rules, body terminology through designing fabric dolls, and interactions with specific body parts using the Circuit Playground Express and Makey Makey. Children will have the opportunity to construct their own identities, express themselves, raise concerns about their bodies, learn basic circuit knowledge, and grasp computational thinking capabilities through primitive coding on MakeCode and Scratch while creating the doll to represent themselves. 

This curriculum is organized into four units: body knowledge including safety rules and body terminologies; fundamental tool knowledge: sample coding on MakeCode for changing lights and sounds, and record function on Scratch, circuit knowledge; doll creation; sharing and exhibition.