App Creation Crit A

Criterion A: Inquiring and analysing

MYP4 (Grade 9)

Mobile App Creation*

Task 1: Inquiring and analysing (criterion A)

Resources

• App Lab

• AppInventor video tutorials

• Glide

• GIMP tutorials

• Glide Apps Tutorials

Task 1: Criterion A: Inquiring and analysing - (10 lessons)

Mobile apps

Assessment Criterion A: Inquiring and Analysing

• 1. Explain and justify the need for a solution to a problem for a specified client/target audience

  2. Identify and prioritize primary and secondary research needed to develop a solution to the problem

Primary research

• • Plan an interview with your client - what would they like?

  • How does the App Lab software function? You will have 2 lessons to learn how to use App Lab - this research should be placed in an appendix in task 1

  • App Inventor is an Android app creator from MIT. You can connect your Android device or use the Emulator

  • Glide builds an app from a Google spreadsheet.

  • Image editing techniques  - GIMP (on Self-Service) - this research should be placed in an appendix in task 1

Secondary research

• • Research of existing Mobile apps.

                     You could use bubbl.us  to create a mind map for your research plan.

• 1. Analyse a range of existing products that inspire a solution to the problem

Mobile apps

• • http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/app-building-guides

  • App Inventor 2 - Programming mobile phones with Android (Tutorials with screenshots)

  • 100 best App Inventor videos

  • App Inventor tutorials

  • Anyone can build Apps that impact the World - Example projects - Discover components

  • Award winning App created by students

  • Glide samples and templates

Briefly look at around eight examples and choose four which you will evaluate in detail. You could create a mind map bubbl.us.

Mobile App Ideas

• • App Inventor of the month

  • App Inventor Winners

  • Top 15 App ideas for 2017 - Teks Mobile

  • Student written apps that are making a world of difference.

• 1. Develop a detailed design brief, which summarizes the analysis of relevant research

Design Assessment criterion A (MYP 5): Investigating & Analysing

Maximum: 8

Students identify the need for a solution to a problem. At the end of year 5, students should be able to:

• 1. Explain and justify the need for a solution to a problem for a specified client/target audience

  2. Identify and prioritize primary and secondary research needed to develop a solution to the problem

  3. Analyse a range of existing products that inspire a solution to the problem

  4. Develop a detailed design brief, which summarizes the analysis of relevant research

*this site has been adapted with permission from the work of Mr Stevenson