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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?) 1. I need to create a video game to study for a certain subject. 2. It applies because it can help students, including me, to study.

<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?) 3. I tried out Atmosphir, Powergame, and Minecraft. 4. I got my ideas for the questions from my 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 meant all the requirements?) 5. I tested it by having a few people play the game and seeing if it was effective for studying. 6. I made sure it met the requirements by making 20 questions and incorporating the questions into the game to make it a good study tool.

<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?) 7. I thought about using Powergame, but it was too complicated. Then I was going to use Atmosphir and use info stickers for questions, but Atmosphir crashed. Then I looked at Minecraft and thought about using signs and puzzles to put in questions. 8. My ideas met the requirements, and I could put questions in all of them. <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?) 9. I chose my final idea (Minecraft) because it was pretty easy and I had a little experience with it. It was easy to put in questions. 10. I checked to make sure it fit the requirements by playing it a little and seeing what the best way was to put my 20 questions in.

<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.) 11. I started designing by making a cave in which to put in my questions. I made a question and then two options and one option was wrong and one was right. 12. My 20 questions were: 1. What is the function of the mitochondria in a cell? 2. What is the atomic number of Helium? 3. What does a plant cell have that an animal cell doesn't? 4. What is the atomic number of hydrogen? 5. If 3 O2 molecules are in a cell and 1 is out of the cell, how many will go out? 6. There are 10 salt molecules inside the cell and 3 outside. Is the solution outside hypertonic or hypotonic? 7. What does the term "selectively permeable" mean? 8. Name type of diffusion. 9. What is a function of the cell membrane? 10. True or false: eukaryotic cells are simple. 11. What is the name of the part of the cell that digests old cell parts? 12. What is ATP formed by? 13. Which is harder, diamond, gold, or iron? 14. What is ATP? 15. Are enzymes important to survival? 16. What is the first level of organism classification? 17. Are wolves made of prokaryotic cells or eukaryotic? 18. Name one of the parts of cell theory. 19. What does a eukaryote have that a prokaryote does not? 20. What school subject is the best?

13. I didn't waste any time. I was diligent the whole time. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">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.) 14. I made a little bit of change, ending up going out of my cave instead of in it all the time. I did that to make it different and more interesting.

<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.) 15. I was responsible because I rarely ever got distracted and was always working. <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?) 16. I followed my plan almost to the letter. 17. I changed it a little bit by going out of the cave. 18. I used my time wisely, always working. 19. I feel like I made a great video game.

<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.) 20. It met all of the requirements. It had 20 questions centered around one subject to help people study for biology. 21. Bradfield agreed because she gave me 100% on the product. 22. Yes, they did. They marked my project as all "yes". <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?) 23. I completed investigate. I could improve it by spending a little more time thinking about the problem. 24. I completed design. I could improve it by being a little more specific. 25. I completed plan. I could improve it by thinking ahead more. 26. I completed create. I could improve it by being a little more concise.

<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? 27. My learning can help everyone around me. When I learn things, I get the chance to pass my learning onto other people and help them learn as well. Then my learning could spread to thousands of people.

<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: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">I was always motivated and respectful, and even helped others with their games.