PowerGame

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===**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? ** === **In my mind I think of virtual environments as a place to get away from the real world. Sometimes when I read for example I love to get away from the real world, especially when things are kind of bad. **

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

===**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19px;">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="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;">Virtual environments have allowed people thousands of miles away from each other to communicate and interact with each other. ** ==<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="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;">Technology has helped and harmed the environment. Some technological devices have been made specifically to help the environment and others such as cars had an unintended outcome of polluting the environment. **
 * <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: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">3. Answer the Design Brief 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;">What is the appeal of a virtual environment?' **
 * <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;">Virtual environments allow people to get to a different reality and sometimes people like to get away from the real world and go to a fake perfect world. **
 * <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="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;">Environments are places where species interact and live. **
 * <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? **
 * SEE ABOVE


 * <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: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Yes **


 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">5. Does your game meet all the requirements? **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">yes **


 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">6. How could you improve your game? **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">I could have improved my game by adding more terrain to my level instead of just a flat course. **

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: x-large; line-height: 36px;">I shared my game with Brady and he liked the difficulty, he said it was not too easy but not impossible.
 * <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: #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:I was able to figure out how to work this software fairly quickly and efficiently. I could have actually figured out how to do more sophisticated things using powergame. **
 * <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: I did well by planning each level as I went but I could have planned my levels ahead of time. **
 * <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: I did really well at making my levels good and and I think they were fun. **
 * <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: I think have made my levels slightly easier because there were secret things that only I know how to beat. **
 * <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: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Yes **

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">Virtual environments allow people to get to a different reality and sometimes people like to get away from the real world and go to a fake perfect world.
 * <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: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">17. What problems did you have using power game? **
 * <span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">I had trouble with power game because I would try to make things go back but it would glitch. **


 * <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: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">I wish I could have done more with the software **


 * <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: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">It was easy **


 * <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: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px;">6 **

<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 ** === <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;">