Cardboard Arcade in Room b9!

This week was dedicated to creating an arcade in room B9! This week long project was fun! We read an article about Cains Arcade from the LA Times (http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-caines-arcade-video-cardboard-arcade-20120411,0,7270609.story) then watched a short video on youtube about Cains Arcade (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faIFNkdq96U&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active). Next students researched ways to make a cardboard arcade from ideas of real arcade games. Then students began to build. After building students wrote out a dynamic document that included:
Name of the game
directions on how to play the game
steps on how to build the game
an Advertisement for the game
self evaluation of the game
(this was inlcuded in a publisher document)

Next students presented their projects to the class and then evaluated each others. Our final and best step was to play the games! We even invited students from other classes to join us in the fun.

Researching and taking notes

 Sketching the design

 Building and Testing

Presenting their games to the class:

Playing!

Student reflections after playing the games:

Alina D
It went well it was really fun to make our games and liked to play other peoples games because they were really fun to play. I think they did i think my game was really hard to play but it was als fun to play. Yes i enjoyed playing other peoples games they were fun i liked Estell's game and Carmen's game and Maddie's game they were really fun to play they were amazing to play they were really fun. bu they were also challenging to play to. I think all the groups did an amazing job they were really fun and some were hard. We can get more prizes.

May 18, 2012

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I think it went very well. I think people did enjoy my game because a lot of people kept playing and playing. I did enjoy playing the others people’s games because they were fun and we could get prizes. I think that Faith group was good because hers was kind of hard to make it in the wholes that they were. Next year more people should go to play the games because there wasn’t that much people playing the games but it was still fun.
May 18, 2012

Great job Champions!

Aurelio J