For the last month and a have in our classes we have been working on a project called tectonic chances where we have to make a game using 10 key concepts of tectonic plates.
At the start of this project we spent most of the time building our knowledge on tectonic plates and layers of earth. We did some fun works over the course of the project for example a project mind map at the start of the project during the building knowledge stage for this we wrote down questions we had then went around and built more knowledge and then at the end of the project we answered the questions we had written down and added more.
After we finished The building knowledge stage we started work on the game! When we started work for the game we had to first learn what type of game to make because we didn’t want one to short or one to long because at the end we wouldn’t have all class to play one game, a example for a game not to make would be a game like monopoly because it takes a few hours to play. After learning about games we started work on ours. Our game escape the plates ( its name ) started as the idea that maybe one person could play as the earth trying to eliminate all the other players before they escaped the planet. After some thinking we decided to make it so all the players of the game are trying to escape the earth because it would not be as fun if you wanted to be a certain thing and did not get it. After we diced how the game was going to work we had to make rules, a board, game pieces and ten key concepts of tectonic plates. Then once the game was made and finalized we got to around the other class and see other peoples games all the ones I played where all very fun and interesting.
Accomplished ☀️
In our game we made sure we had at least ten key science concepts by having a lot of the cards based of tectonic plate concepts for example continental drift or hot spots cards did something that made scene based of what that thing dose in real life . We also made some game pieces with the idea of tectonic plates in mind for example fault lines if you got the fault line card you would places a fault line on the board. Another example of our visual representation would be volcanos and mountains because if you got a card that told you to place a volcano or mountain you would place one on the map as a obstacle.
In class i used my class time effective and smartly because every class we had to work on something for our game and i wanted it to be project that i would be proud of so I tried to use my time to make it as good as possible. A example of how i used my class time is our board game because we all used our class time well we had a good board game that we all liked.this project was very interesting and I really like the theory of tectonic plates because it involves pretty much everyone on earth because it is what causes earth quakes and tsunamis which no matter where you are i think everyone has heard of and might be in danger because of them so i think it was a interesting topic to learn about.
in our game we had to use probability for each turn in some ways it was pretty difficult thing for me at the start but then i was able to use it well and i got me head around the concept. After i under stood it i could easily put probability chances in our game. Some examples of probability in our game was that we had multiple dice so the probability of rolling certain things where a thing to keep in mind for the game. We also had cards that had a different probability of making a mountain or fault line or volcano appear on the board. There also where cards so the probability of getting a certain card was something we thought about and we decided to make one card have a higher chance of being pulled because there would be more of that card in the deck.
My opinion on the project
I really liked this project and the things we did in it i do not think there was i time where I thought “this is boring “ because every thing we did in this project was fun and interesting. One of my favorite times during this project would be when we got to play our board game with other people and we got to try other peoples games. I think the project was very interesting and I learned a lot of things over the course of it to!
Things to check out!
The people in my group probably also have super interesting blog posts about the project to make sure to check there’s out!
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