- 15 minutes: Welcome, Icebreaker, & Overview
- 45 minutes: Instant Replay (Reviewing the Practice Regional Competition Results)
- As we review competitions, consider these questions:
- What was the strategy of each team (blue and red)?
- What worked well?
- What could still be improved?
- View the final round of our team's intramural competition: click here
- View our team's competition against the Boys & Girls Club of SF: click here
- View competitions from other regions: click here
- With your partner, review five or more simulations and discuss the questions above.
- Based on what you've learned, design an improved strategy for the game.
- Present to the group your plan to revise your game design.
- 30 minutes: Code Your Revised Game Strategy
- Continue programming your game strategy! (and remember your revisions)
- You may want to refer back to these resources:
- the Introduction to Game Mode tutorial, in which you will learn to use the game mode (as opposed to the free mode that you have been using up to this point).
- the game manual with very detailed information about the competition and rules of the game
- the game overview slideshow, with directions for how to complete most advanced functions of the game (it's a review of the skills challenges)
- the results of the regional competitions
- 15 minutes: Break
- 75 minutes (with brain break): Continue Coding
- Brain Break: play Space Word-a-Rama, then explore some activities in the Finished Early? section at the bottom of this site
- 20 minutes: Connecting to the Real World with Nova's "Meteor Strike" (Part 1)
- 10 minutes: Wrap-Up & Close-Out
Here's a preview to our schedule:
- This Week (Week #4):
- review results of practice regional competition
- work time to revise code
- prepare for actual regional competition
- Next Week (Week #5):
- review results of actual regional competition
- work time to revise code of winning team
- learn more about space exploration and applications of STEM
- improving bottle rocket design
- Friday, August 15th:
- field trip to NASA Ames for the final competition
Finished Early? Here are some activities and resources to explore:
- Explore Forces and Motion
- Newton's Laws of Motion Interactive
- Circus Physics Video
- Quiz
- "Launch a Frisbee into Orbit" introduces angular velocity, angular acceleration, rotational inertia, and torque
- Amusement Park Physics: Roller Coasters
- Some more math and science fun
- Chasing Down a Satellite talks about how satellites work.
- Order of Operations
- Dimensions and 3-D objects
- Vectors: Dampen that Drift
- Break the code in this challenge from the CIA
- Grids & Cartesian Coordinates
- General Coordinates Game
- Play with some coordinates
- Some math manipulatives
- Advanced Coding!
