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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?) <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">1. Create a video game to help a person study in a certain area of school. <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">2. I could use this video game to study in the certain are of school.

<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: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">3. I tried out Powergame and Atmosphir. <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">4. I used questions off of a Biology study guide and questions remembered off of a test in that class.

<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?) <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">5. I tested my game out and another student played my game. <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">6. I checked my game constantly against the requirements to make sure that it had all that it needed.

<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: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">7. I considered using Atmoshpir or another site that could create a board game rather than a video game. Another option for me was Powergame or Minecraft. <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">8. The idea for Atmosphir could not meet the requirements because for the majority of the time we were given it did not work. I also had no experience with Minecraft so I chose Powergame.

<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: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">9. I chose my final idea based on what was working and what I was comfortable with. <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">10. My final idea did meet the requirements.

<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: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">11. I designed my video game by first creating the levels then inserting the twenty questions. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">12. What does the Golgi Apparatus do? <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">What do ribosomes do? <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">What do catalyst do? <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">What does hydrophobic mean? <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">What part of the phospholipid bi-layer is hydrophobic? <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">What part of the cell membrane helps with cell to cell communication? <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">What does selective permeable mean? <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">What does the cytoplasm do? <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Where are ribosomes made? <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Does active transport require energy? <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Is passive transport with or against the concentration gradient? <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">What does the cholesterol do for the cell membrane? <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">What molecules can pass the phospholipid bi-layer with no help from proteins or active transport? <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">What is ATP? <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">What are the three parts of the cell theory? <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">What is ATP used for? <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">What is osmosis? <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">What is a hypertonic solution? <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">In what type of solution does a plant have good turgor pressure? <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">What happens when an animal cell is in a hypotonic solution?

<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="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">No I didn't make any changes to my plan because I didn't want to have to adjust everything. I just stuck to my plan and that kept things simple and easy.

<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: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Yes I was responsible. I used the appropriate sources such as a study guide from biology with the questions on it or similar questions and I used Powergame appropriately.

<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: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">16. I did follow my plan. 17. No. 18. I did use my time wisely. 19. Yes I made a good 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.) <span style="color: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">20. My video game did meet all the requirements. I made a video game with all twenty questions that could help me study for a subject. I chose Biology and I even used similar questions to the ones on worksheets and study guide so that I would be prepared for the upcoming test. I think it did help and the whole goal was to create a video game that would help so I think I accomplished that goal. 21. I think I meant the requirements on the original game but I did not meet the requirements on the first wikispace. 22. The person that evaluated my video game agreed that my video game met all of the requirements. I got all of the boxes filled in as "yes" when we were doing the evaluation worksheet thing that one Friday.

<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: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">23. Yes. I could have looked deeper the first time but the second time I got it. 24. Yes. I could have mentioned more on why I chose Powergame over the other options I was given. 25. Yes. On this second round I actually put the questions on like it asked but on the first time I should have done that and answered the questions better. 26. Yes. I could have used more resources.

<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: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Learning can help educate the people around you. This could end up spreading like a wild fire and encourage others to do the same. Even a single person can start the virus of learning and getting new information. Eventually, the whole world could get a little knowledge because you never know where that person may travel to and what they will share. The world needs education and the more education that is given the more that the whole world can benefit.

<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: #008080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">I was always motivated and respectful.