Serious Games Year 4
Join us to learn about how coding in Scratch can be integrated with Science in the creation of a serious game. In this course you will explore a 4 x lesson overview where Year 4 students investigate the components of a serious game and design and program one in Scratch. The learning is linked to curriculum in Media Arts, Science, Digital Technologies and Design and Technologies.
The Year 4 lessons and resources you will access for free, also give Year 4 students opportunities to learn how to develop their computational thinking skills, gain confidence in STEM activities and deepen their understanding of STEM subject choices at school and STEM careers.
A professional learning certificate is available (mapped to the APST).
Course Content
- Welcome to the course – Year 4 lesson overview, Growth mindset, questions
- Teacher Toolkit – future of work, computational thinking, serious games
- Module 1 – Serious games
- Module 2 – Game design
- Module 3 – Creating digital assets
- Module 4 – Game programming
- Final course assessment
Curriculum
- 7 Sections
- 40 Lessons
- 10 Weeks
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- Welcome To The Course presented By Natalie McMaster and Patrick BaileyThe First Section Of The Course Which Outlines How The Course Is Structured And Provides An Overview Of The Structure, Focus Areas And Curriculum Of The Year 4 Lessons.4
- Teacher Toolkit presented by Patrick BaileyThis Section Is Your Teacher Toolkit And You Can Come Back To This Section At Any Time To Revise The Key Concepts Of The Course And The Foundations Of The MIE School Project.8
- Module 1 - Serious Games presented by Patrick BaileyThis section walks you through Lesson 1 and the knowledge and understanding students need to have on the topic prior to designing the serious game.2
- Module 2 - Game DesignIn this section you will learn about the science content knowledge needed for the game, learn about game design and create a plan for your game within design constraints.2
- Module 3 - Creating Digital AssetsIn this section, you will follow your game plan and upload digital assets in Scratch.10
- 7.2Introduction – Setting up tips for Lesson 3
- 7.3Watch – add a background
- 7.4Add a background
- 7.5Watch – add a photographer
- 7.6Add a photographer
- 7.7Watch – add a target object and a non-target object
- 7.8Add a target and non-target object
- 7.11Watch – add a target object over the polaroid picture
- 7.12Add a target object over the polaroid picture
- 7.13Assessment #4 – Creating Digital Assets
- Module 4 - Game ProgrammingIn this section you continue to follow your game design and are now programming the objects in your game using block coding in Scratch.12
- 8.2Introduction Lesson 4 – Game Programming
- 8.3Watch – code the Photographer
- 8.4Code the photographer
- 8.5Watch – code the non-target object
- 8.6Code the non-target object
- 8.7Watch – code the target object
- 8.8Code the target object
- 8.9Watch – code the polaroid picture
- 8.10Code the polaroid picture
- 8.11Watch – set up scoring in your game
- 8.12Set up scoring in your game
- 8.13Assessment #5 – Game Programming
- Final Course AssessmentIn this section you will be finalising and sharing your completed game2
