Mayhem's Recent Projects

TwinkleStar

The intent for this project is to get many alternative language versions of the nursery rhyme "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" all into one project. So far only the english version is complete - can you help, by singing in one of the other languages?

King Kong Kang

This is an animation of a poem written and performed by my previous mixed age class of 5-7 year olds during the literacy Scheme Poetry unit "Funny Stuff". It is their own version of Spike Milligan's nonsense poem "On the Ning Nang Nong."

Magic Machine 1.4

Press Space! Created for a Year 2 literacy lesson from the QCA Module "Silly Sounds", in which children learn to play with language. Would like to add animations for the ingredients coming in and the products coming out, but no time! Now updated to use the text-handling strings in v1.4, allowing for easier insertion of new items. It will generate 10 unique strings and play each one once with a press of the space bar before reshuffling the 10 random materials and products, so you are certain to get no duplicates in the 1st ten goes.

Multiplication quiz 1.4

A super simple quiz to test out the new Ask block. Creates a list of all possible questions and answers for multiplying the numbers 0-10 and then selects 20 questions randomly from the list. using the list rather than just random numbers each time prevents duplicate questions.

Magic Machine

Created for a Year 2 literacy lesson from the QCA Module "Silly Sounds", in which children learn to play with language. Would like to add animations for the ingredients coming in and the products coming out, but no time! Animation not mine, but shamelessly stolen and modified from a site about protecting food quality...

Deep Sea Doubles

Deep Sea Doubles For Year 1 Oral/Mental Math Starter Click the green flag then click the fish to begin. Click on the crab that has the double of what the fish is saying on its shell. what's the best time you can get?

X-ray scanner

I've taken Mazemakers version of Yelmo's 'X-Ray' and improved the display, using the ghost command to hide model's skin and changing the condition that makes them hide to "touching a ghosted sprite" instead of touching a colour.

Creation of the world

A creation story from the Hindu faith. Press the spacebar to go to the next page.

Chess Recorder

A simple chess board, courtesy of Chalkmarrow. CONTROLS: Move the selection cursor with the arrow keys and press space to pick up/put down a piece. As you play the game, it records your moves and you can then save the moves so far by clicking "save". Clicking Replay will reset the board and then move the pieces to play out the saved game. It comes complete with a very short game in which white wins extremely quickly ;)... This is a chessboard with a recorder only - it DOES NOT check to see if moves are legal, nor is there an opponent to play against. It could be used to play a game against another scratcher, by simply downloading, making your move, saving and re-uploading each turn. The game played would gradually build up in the memory.

Alien Tricky Words Mk III

Designed for use with the UK primary school "Letters and Sounds" program. Tricky Words are words that cannot be read or splet phonetically, although note that some early phase "tricky words" become non-tricky in later phases as new phonememes are taught. Choose the earliest and latest phases you want to draw words from (for non UK people, phase 2 is easiest, phase 5 hardest). The alien will then say a "Tricky Word" from that phase - a tricky word being a word that cannot be decoded with synthetic phonics. Click on the screen to go to the next word. Mk III uses a list to ensure that every word is shown, but it assigns them into a random order and then cycles through that list for 60 seconds. **** This is designed for use with adult supervision, to check the childrens ability to read the randomly generated tricky words. Could be used as practice, or for assessment. Can be used on the IWB in a classroom, or at home with a parent for homework. **** Possible improvements: A self-checking facility where audio of the word is played before moving onto the next word. An "assesment mode" where the set of words from the chosen phase or phases is cycled through just once.

Phoneme Flashcards mk3

The phonemes from phases 2 and 3 of the UK's letters and sounds phonics programme. My first project in a while, primarily made to try out the new list function. Edit: Replaced the speech baloon with sprites and added a little animation for fun. Edit: Added some controls for choosing the letter sets from 1-7. Added a timer. Added the option to repeat the game without changing the letter sets.

Phoneme Flashcards Mk2

The phonemes from phases 2 and 3 of the UK's letters and sounds phonics programme. My first project in a while, primarily made to try out the new list function. Replaced the speech baloon with sprites and added a little animation for fun.

Phoneme Flashcards

The phonemes from phases 2 and 3 of the UK's letters and sounds phonics programme. Click to change the phoneme. Not a game, more of a display for use by the teacher, who can put it on the whteboard when testing phonics knowledge instead of using flashcards. My first project in a while, primarily made to try out the new list function. A pity that the say balloon and text is so small - I wonder if that can be hacked...

Musical "Round" about fruit.

Simple animation for a simple musical round. Click on an individual line to hear that refrain twice, or press space to hear the whole thing sung as a musical round.

Car-counter

Simple example of Pictograms based on a survey of car colours. After 15 cars, it will draw a pictogram. Amazingly it only uses 1 Sprite and 1 script. I recently updated it, speeding it up and using a list to store the data which allowed my to shorten to the code by using more "repeat" loops, AND get rid of four variables. I was also able to reduce the amount of scripts from 2 to 1 by realising that I didn't need to change the background, just stamp a new background on top of it using the existing sprite.