Welcome to Debora's e-Portfolio!: Zoinks! presents: The Cell Game

After learning a lot more about nutrients and cells in class, our teacher, Ms. Silva decided assigned to us a very creative project. We were assigned to work in Zoinks! and had to make a game, video, or whatever we chose to make and teach our audience(in this case younger students) about cells, some nutrients, diffusion, etc.

The goal of this project was for us to review cells and for our teacher to see if we had really learned everything- in a new and creative way.

At first I had decided to make a video, but it would be too complicated, but I was still stuck with the video idea in my head for a few days. However, I thought that a game board might be fun as well, since I love decorating and designing. So my plan was to make cards asking the question, and saying the answer. Although, I had to be more creative then just doing that, or else it would be boring...

After making sure I was going to make a game board, I started planning out and writing creative things for my game board.

I first came up with the rules/steps of the game, then all the questions(more then 40), after I cut out all the papers to make the questions and the answers(surprisingly it took a lot of work), and afterwards I answered them. Answering them took some time as well, but I had good resources- my science book, my tests, worksheets, the internet, notes that I took in class and of course, all that I had learned with Ms. Silva and our class.

After this, I got a "paper"(it has got some layers though so I wouldn't exactly call it paper nor cardboard paper), then I cut out some pieces of papers to make them as the steps the players would have to go in order to win the game. After doing so, I outlined what the steps would have to say, and wrote on them what would the player have to do if he/she got it right or wrong(right was in gold while wrong was in silver).

Coming up with the name of the game wasn't very easy, even if it seems like an easy name, however I'm not very good at naming things. I came up with the name "The Cell Game"and got gold paint and painted it on top of the "paper" I cut out.

Finally, I played it to see it everything worked out and had to check all the questions and answers to see if I hadn't made any mistakes.

Summed up, this project doesn't look like it was very hard, but it took a lot of hard work and it took me about two weeks to come up with it.

Self-evaluation: I honestly think that I did a good job- I put a lot of thought into this project and worked hard to make it good. I also truly liked this project, it was fun and different and I hope we do something as fun as this again soon! It was a good way to review everything and to learn new things which you realized you hadn't known about before. I enjoyed it a lot and think my project turned out very good.

Youtube link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QQ3qCw09-M