- 15 minutes: Welcome, Game, & Overview
- 15 minutes: Review Results of Regional Competition
- Review other teams' simulations:
- Buchanan YMCA (red) vs. YMCA of Silicon Valley (blue)
- Buchanan YMCA (red) vs. Boys and Girls Club (blue)
- Boys and Girls Club (red) vs. YMCA of Silicon Valley (blue)
- What can we learn from their performances?
- Are there questions we need to investigate?
- How can we improve this code?
- 45 minutes: Revise the Winning Strategy (or Your Own): Work to make changes that will improve the score even more!
- 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
- If you are finished early, explore the activities at the bottom of this site.
- If the results are not available, (Otherwise, we will save this for Tuesday.)
- 15 minutes: Break
- 75 minutes: Fun with Scratch! We will use Scratch to program a moving cartoon!
- There are videos and tutorials to help you make a "holiday card," but you can make whatever you want.
- Get help by clicking on the links on the right side of the page.
- Explore some projects to get some ideas for your own project.
- Want more help? View Scratch tutorial #1 / tutorial #2 / tutorial #3 / how to make a game
- 40 minutes: What is NASA up to?
- At this point, you may be interested in learning more about NASA–what they do, what we've learned from their work, and what they are hoping to do in the future. Now is the perfect time to look more at NASA in the past, today, and in the future.
- Look at the current and planned NASA missions for 2013 and beyond using the following resources, to get a good sense of what NASA is doing today and in the future.
- Learn about what happens when things go wrong in space by watching this clip from the movie Apollo 13.
- Learn about some important space missions and what we learned from them.
- Create your own video to show what NASA is up to! You can use one of these tools to make a video (Magisto / Kizoa) and include these videos and photos from NASA.
- 5 minutes: Wrap-Up & Close-Out
Here's a preview to our schedule:
- This 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, from 7:30 am to 12:00 noon
- field trip to NASA Ames for the final competition & group activities & lunch with NASA engineers
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
- Astronomy Crossword
- Satellite Insight
- Advanced Coding!
