Design a Game

Play the first five puzzles of the Star Wars Hour of Code to get an idea of what a simple game looks like.

What makes something a game? 

What is a Game Design Document?

According to Wikipedia, a game design document (often abbreviated GDD) is a highly descriptive living design document of the design for a video game.^[1][2][3][4] A GDD is created and edited by the development team and it is primarily used in the video game industry to organize efforts within a development team. 

Create your game design document by completing this document.

Homestretch

Thank You Cards

• Complete this assignment
• Draw a picture here for Grandpa Herbert
• Draw a picture here for Grandma Jello
• Ask your teacher to sign you into Punchbowl to send your greetings
• Send your thank you cards using these email addresses
• Call Mr. Yasui

Code on!

Focus on Coding

Let's focus today so we can finish the code.org puzzles this week. You can do it!

Oreo Cookie Writing

Complete this assignment.

Moving forward with coding

Continue Coding

 

Request for Help

• Complete this assignment.
• Ask your teacher to review it.
• When approved, email it to the recipient.

Songwriting with Parameters

• Read the vocabulary words to the right.
• Share an example of a function that you used in a recent code.org puzzle.
• Share an example of a parameter that you used in a recent code.org puzzle.
• Let's look at the lyrics for this song together.
• Discuss
• Why do you suppose genius.com wrote the chorus once in the beginning instead of writing it over and over in each place where it is supposed to be sung?
• What are other benefits of only writing the chorus once when you sing it many times?
• Imagine that this song is a computer program. Defining a title (like "chorus") for a little piece of code that you use over and over again is called creating a function. This is helpful to computer scientists for the same reasons that it is helpful to songwriters.
• It saves time not having to write all the code over and over in the program.
• If you make a mistake, you only have to change it in one place.
• The program feels less complicated with the repeating pieces defined just once.
• Discuss
• What if the chorus isn't exactly the same each time you repeat it? What would you do?
• Listen to this song. 
• What are the lyrics for the chorus?
• What are the parameters?
• What would the program for the song look like?
• Print and complete this activity.
• Take a picture of the completed worksheet (page 2 only) and post it to your blog.
• Include an RJ about this activity.
• Can you think of any popular songs that have a changing chorus?
• Continue working on your code.org puzzles.

Milton Hershey

1. Read and respond to any new comments on your blog.
2. Complete this writing assignment.

More Coding

Computational Thinking

• Login to code.org.
• Watch this video on computational thinking.
• Review the vocabulary in this lesson.
• Share your ideas for the Elbow Partner Discussion Question.
• Read the paragraphs in the Introduce section.
• Study the classified monsters on the right.
• Decompose the monsters into smaller parts.
• What do all monsters have in common? What is the monster pattern?
• Draw a Zombus Spritem in this Google Draw document.
• What details can we abstract out to generalize the description of the monsters?
• What algorithm can you create to instruct someone to draw a specific monster.
• Create an algorithm to draw a Franken Vegitas.
• If time permits, continue working on your coding puzzles.

Wallow in Wonder!

• Finish your first post on "Student Voice"
• Post your bit creation from yesterday and write a short entry about it

What is it?

What did you learn? 

Why did you choose this design?

• Study this poster.
• Write an RJ about a moment when you responded with wonderment and awe.

Coding

Student Voice and Blogging

• What is "Student Voice"?
• Conduct a quick Google search on "student voice"
• Read this article on blogging in education -- stop at "Additional Resources"
• Review this rubric and student exemplars
• Start a blog. Use this guide if you need help.
• Write your first post on "Student Voice"
• Post your bit creation from yesterday and write a short entry about it

Welcome to Yo Yo Academy!

• Login here using the secret words from Mrs. Yo
  
• Watch the first video
• Login to your Google Drive
• Take turns reading this
• Using the Binary Decoder, identify the letters represented by your teacher on this grid
• Write your name using the Binary Decoder
• Write a word using the Binary Decoder
• Draw a picture around the word that represents that word (eg: buddy)