Game Board Project

Assignment:

You are a board game manufacturer, and you have been assigned the task of creating a board game that will help students learn electricity concepts from Physics class and math concepts from middle school and/or elementary school. Your game should be easy enough that an elementary school student can play it without extra instructions. The game should be professionally done, fun to play, and review Physics and Math concepts.

Essential Questions

-How can you build and test circuits that will use batteries, light bulbs, wire and other components to enhance a board game?

-What is electricity and how does it work?

-How can you design a creative, fun, and easy to play board game that will incorporate questions to review math and electricity?

Individual Deliverables:

-At least 25 Electricity question cards

- 5 for Ohm's Law (V = IR)

- 5 for P = IV

- 10 for Terms/definitions

- 5 for Series / Parallel

-At least 25 elementary school level questions

-5 for two digit addition (23 plus 52 = ?)

-5 Time questions (to the closest minute)

-5 Place value

-5 Money problems

-5 patterns problems (What is the next number: 1, 3, 9, 27, ___?)

Group Deliverables

-Detailed Rules/Instructions for the game

-A board game designed in Photoshop

-Schematics and circuitry that will be glued on the back of your board (series or parallel circuit with LED's, buzzer, or motors)

-50 Electricity questions and 50 Elementary level math questions

Group Folder

All work for this project will be kept in the group folder. Group folders should have clearly marked sections with labeled dividers by assignment. The outside of the folder may be decorated by taping paper onto the folder and decorating the paper (we will reuse these folders throughout the year). The folders will be kept neatly in the computer cabinet in the front of my room.

Due Dates

* = Group members are responsible for critiquing the 15 group questions and typing the 10 best questions with no errors.

Here is an example board game from 2011.

-What are things that make this board game easy to play?

-What makes this a fun board game to play?

-Where can you see evidence of their circuitry?

Which of the following questions is better for your board game:

a- What is the definition of current?

OR

b- What term describes the flow of electrons?

Both questions are asking the same thing, but example b is better because the answer is only one word and is not left up to interpretation.

PHOTOSHOP Help

-Create a new .psd

-Image size 14" X 14"

-Resolution 160dpi

-Color - RGB

-Create a block, duplicate that layer to make your path.

Help with making squares for Board Game Video:

Need help with Photoshop? Check this video out: