Helping+the+Community+Version+2

How Can My Learning Help My CommunityVersion 2

Area of Interaction: Community and Service Significant Concept: Video games can be used to understand math, technology, engineering, social studies, English, and/or science. Unit Question: How can my learning help my community?

Requirements: -Create a video game for Midvale students. Your game needs to help middle school students with one subject area. You can use the following site to help you with question ideas: [|UEN] -Choose a video game site to use, such as Atmosphir, Power Game, or your favorite game maker site. (You must approve it through me) -Your game needs to have at least 20 questions. -Complete and use the Design Cycle -Spend one day practicing Atmosphir. -Your Assignment is due February 10.

You will receive an academic grade and an MYP grades for this assignment. Please change the color font to make it easier for me to grade!

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Investigate:

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Completely explain the problem and its relevance to your life. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">(1. Explain the problem. 2. How does the problem apply to you?) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">1. Create a video game to help students review a subject. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">2. It helps students in the school study for classes they are taking.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Critically investigate the problem and evaluate information from a variety of appropriate sources. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">(3. What game sites did you try out? 4. Where did you get your ideas for questions in the game?) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">3. We tried atmosphir and sploder.com. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">4. We got the questions from our science notes.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Provide a detailed explanation of how you will test your product against the design specifications. (requirements) <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">(5. How did you test your game? 6. How did you make sure your game meet all the requirements?) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">5. We had Chadd test our game by playing it and we played it too. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">6. We played it and saw that nothing was missing.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Design:

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Create a range of possible designs (brainstorm), and evaluate all of them against the design specifications (requirements). <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">(7. What ideas did you brainstorm for your game? 8. Did all your ideas meet the requirements?) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">7. We thought about making a golden temple in the end. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">8. They did meet all the requirements.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Choose the best design and evaluate it fully against the design specifications (requirements). <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">(9. How did you choose your final idea? 10. Did you check to make sure your final idea met all the requirements?) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">9. We thought about it and decided on one thing and didn't change our minds. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">10. Yes, we checked.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Plan:

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Create a plan that contains a number of detailed, logical steps that describes how you will use your resources and time. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">(11. Explain how you designed your video game. 12. What were your 20 questions? 13. Did you waste time? Explain.) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">11. We mapped it out on a paper. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">12. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">1. What do all living things have?

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">2. What do plants cells have that animal cells don't?

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">3. What does selectively permeable mean?

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">4. What kind of heart do amphibians have?

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">5. Why don't you want to give a plant salt water?

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">6. What's the cell membrane made of?

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">7. What do chloroplants do for a plant cell?

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">8. What's one difference between a mammal and a reptile?

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">9. Why is the platypus a weird mammal?

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">10. What breaks down starch?

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">11. What makes up everything?

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">12. What is mass made up of?

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">13. What does hypotonic mean?

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">14. What does hypertonic mean?

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">15. What does isotonic mean?

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">16. What will happen if you don't have enough enzymes?

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">17. What cells like hypertonic?

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">18. What cells like hypotonic?

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">19. Are the phospholipid heads hydrophilic or hydrophobic?

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">20. Are the phospholipid tails hydrophilic or hydrophobic?

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">13. No, because we were trying to test the game out.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Evaluate the plan and justify any changes to your design. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">(14. Did you make any changes to your plan? Explain why or why not.) = <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">14. The plan is good because if we follow the requirements, we will get a good grade and we will get it done quickly. =

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Create:

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Skillfully use appropriate techniques and equipment. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">(15. Were you responsible? Explain.) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">15. Yes, we took care of the animals in the game. . . not our class :D

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Follow your plan, justify changes in the plan, and create an appropriate product using your resources and time. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">(16. Did you follow your plan? 17. Did you change your plan? 18. Did you use your time wisely? 19. Did you make a good video game?) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">16. Yes, we stuck to the plan. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">17. No, we stuck to the plan. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">18. Yes, we had good techniques to use time wisely. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">19. Yes, people liked it.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Evaluate:

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Evaluate your product based on the design specifications, results of testing, and feedback from self and others. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">(20. Did your video game meet all of the requirements? Explain. 21. Did Bradfield agree you met all the requirements? Explain. 22. Did the person that evaluated your project agree that you met all the requirements? Explain.) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">20. Yes, we had all 20 questions and people learned from it. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">21. Yes, you agreed. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">22. Yes, he said he learned and it was fun.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Evaluate your performance at each stage of the design cycle and suggest improvements. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">(23. Did you complete the investigate step? How you improve this step? 24. Did you complete the Design step? How could you improve this step? 25. Did you complete the plan step? How could you improve this step? 26. Did you complete the create step? How could you improve this step?) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">23. Yes, we investigated many things. We could have thought about some of the problems that could have come up. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">24. Yes, we designed it. We could have put everthing on paper. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">25. Yes, we did. We could have desinged it better. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">26. Yes, we created a videogame. We could have planed it out better.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Unit Question: <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">27. Completely explain how your learning can help you, your family, your school, your community, our country, and the world? <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">27. We are the future so we need to be very well educated so the future will be good.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Attitude:

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">You were consistently motivated and respectful. (and not a whiny baby!) <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">(28. Were you always motivated and respectful?) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">We were always respectful to the resources and others around us.