PowerGame

**POWER GAME TECH 1 ** ===**Area of Interaction: Environments ** === ===**Significant Concepts: Basic video programming and the appeal of virtual environments. ** === ===**Unit Question: What is the appeal of a virtual environment? ** ===

===**REQUIREMENTS: ** === ===**Take the Power Game Test on Skyward. ** ===

===**Create a new page on your wiki. Name it "Power Game". ** ===

===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Copy and Paste this page onto your wikispace. ** ===

===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Create your own video game using Power Game. ** ===

===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">You must work on this video game for 7 days. You should add new elements to your game every day! ** ===

===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Make at least 5 levels on your video game. Your width for each level should be at least 2600. ** ===

===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Take one picture of each of your levels. You should have at least 5 pictures. ** ===

===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Name all of your pictures, "Power Game 1", Power Game 2", Power Game 3", and "Power Game 4". ** ===

===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Upload all of your pictures onto your wikispace. ** ===

==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">How has virtual environments changed our society? <span style="color: #f71d54; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">They change society because they can help stores make money and give teens something to do. ** ==
 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">INVESTIGATE **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">1. Take the Power Game Test on <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Skyward] .**
 * 2. ****<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">How does the Design Cycle apply to the real world? **<span style="color: #f71d54; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">The Design Cycle can be used to plan out something for a job.
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">3. Answer the Design Brief questions below: **

==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> How has technology impacted our environment? <span style="color: #f71d54; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">It impacts our environment because there is pollution. ** ==


 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">What is the appeal of a virtual environment? You can create yourself and do things you couldn't do in reality.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">What are environments? **<span style="color: #f71d54; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;"> Environments are like the place you do live in.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">What are the requirements of this assignment? **<span style="color: #f71d54; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">5 levels on the game.


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">PLAN **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Follow the plan I outlined below: **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Day 1: Skyward Test, Design Folder on your wikispace, answer the Investigate and Plan sections. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Day 2: Finish Skyward Test, Investigate, and Plan sections. Start Power Game. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Day 3: Complete first level. Don't forget that the width for each level needs to be at least 2600. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Day 4: Complete second level. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Day 5: Complete third level. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Day 6: Complete fourth level. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Day 7: Complete 5th level and the entire Design Folder, including uploading pictures on your wikispace. **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">CREATE **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Be nice to my software and computer. **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Follow the steps of the plan I made you for you! **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Pay attention to the quality of your work! **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Don't be a whiny baby that I have to babysit! **


 * <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">EVALUATE **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">4. Did you follow the plan I made for you? <span style="color: #ff1f5f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Yes I followed the plan you made for us. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">5. Does your game meet all the requirements? <span style="color: #ff1f5f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Yes the game met all of the requirements. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">6. How could you improve your game? <span style="color: #ff1f5f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">We could have added more effects and bad guys to it. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">7. Share your game with at least one friend. What did he/she like about your game? <span style="color: #ff1f5f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">She the last level because it was very different from the other levels . **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">8. Reflect on all the steps of the Design Cycle. What did you do well? What do you need to improve? Answer both questions below! **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Investigate: <span style="color: #ff1f5f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">I think I did good on Investigate because understood the questions and answered them as best as I could. **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Plan: <span style="color: #ff1f5f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">I think I did OK on Plan. I think I could have made a better plan and have a better idea of what I was doing. But, I got everything done so I guess I didn't do too bad. **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Create: <span style="color: #ff1f5f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">I think I did good on create. All of the levels met the requirements and I had a lot of fun creating this video game. **
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">**<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Evaluate: <span style="color: #ff1f5f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">I think I did well on Evaluate because I understand what I did. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">15. Were you responsible in using the software and computer? <span style="color: #ff1f5f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Yes I was responsible. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">16. What is the appeal of a virtual environment? <span style="color: #ff1f5f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">To do things you can't do in reality. **


 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">17. What problems did you have using power game? <span style="color: #ff1f5f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">The force fields acted funny and on the last level I think we die before the game even starts. **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">18. What did you like the least about power game? <span style="color: #ff1f5f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">The snowmen were the enemies and the eskimo was the good guy. It seemed kind of bland. And what was the cabbage thing for? **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">19. What did you like the best about power game? <span style="color: #ff1f5f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">The sound effects! **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">20. What grade do you deserve on this project? (1 - 6) <span style="color: #ff1f5f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">hmm...4 or 5 **

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 30px;">**THIS IS HOW YOU WILL RECEIVE YOUR LETTER GRADE:** ===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="color: #ff6400; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Attitude = +20 ** ===

===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="color: #ff6400; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Followed the Design Cycle = +30 ** ===

===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="color: #ff6400; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">Quality (5 Levels) = +50 ** ===

===<span style="font-size: 1.1em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**<span style="color: #ff6400; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">TOTAL = 100 POINTS ** ===

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