Middle School learning objectives for CS121 games, Fall 12
Sycamore
Science
We are studying ecosystems, rock cycle and water cycle.
Of particular interest would be a game around rock cycle or
ecosystems.
Social Studies
We are studying current California history,
current American history, mesopatamia, and early man.
Rio del Valle
Standard 6.SP.2 Statistics and Probability
Standard 6.SP.2 Statistics and Probability
Develop understanding of statistical variability.
Understand that a set of data collected to answer a statistical
question has a distribution
which can be described by its center, spread, and overall shape.
Standard 6.EE.3
Apply and extend previous understandings of arithmetic to algebraic expressions.
Apply the properties of operations to generate equivalent expressions.
For example, apply the
distributive property to the expression
3 (2 + x)
to produce the equivalent expression
6 + 3x;;
apply the distributive property to the expression
24x + 18y
to produce the equivalent expression
6 (4x + 3y);
apply properties of operations to
y + y + y
to produce the equivalent expression
3y.
http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards/mathematics/
Chiefess Kamakahelei 1
"Road to College"
Some sort of game dealing with college and career choices, e.g.,
Monopoly or LIFE.
Use Costa's levels of questions and have the students learn
to write 2nd and 3rd level questions.
(Google: Costa's levels of questions)
A problem solving game,
like the kind of paper games we play in the MyCS course.
A 'computer creation' game. Where
someone is given a bunch of parts and has to put them together to create a computer.
Maybe some sort of question needs to be answered and then you get access to some set
of parts. The goal being to put it all together correctly and to answer
the questions correctly.. This is the opposite of the
computer tear down that we did in MyCS.
Check out: http://www.kids-online.net/kidsframe.html
and 'Click-N-Learn'.
Chiefess Kamakahelei 2
"Road to College"
Some sort of game dealing with college and career choices, e.g.,
Simple arithmetic game:
such as adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing integers.
While these games exist, this would be one for which students were
involved in the game's creation.
