Choosing Adventures

Grades 5–8

8 sessions: 1 - 1.5 hours each

Informational, Narrative, STEM

Projects

Code Your Story

Julius Panoriñgan, 826LA

1. Spies and Algorithms: The Ultimate Dream Team

2. Encoding and Decoding Top-Secret Messages

3. Pixels as Building Blocks

4. Deconstruction and Reconstruction

5. Making Things Functional

6. Intro to Games

7. Choosing Adventures

8. Winning Instructions

This project offers an exploration into computer science and coding. Students will learn how a knowledge of coding can make them stronger writers.

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In this session, students will learn about what makes the right amount of choice in a game and what choices will keep the player (and the programmer!) happy.

What Your Students Will Learn

Students will figure out how to present an appropriate amount of choices to a user, as well as what information those choices should entail.

What Your Students Will Produce

Students will create their own adventure game and practice writing dialogue.

What You Will Need

Pizza restaurant menu— 1 copy per student
“Code Your Story: Dialogue Tree Branching”— 1 copy per student
Session 7 Slides — Slides

Before You Start

You’ll need to find the biggest, most complicated pizza menu you can find—bonus points if it’s from a restaurant local to your neighborhood! Make a copy of the pizza menu for each of your students. If you can’t find one, Ernesto’s in Boston, Massachusetts and Pizza Luce in Saint Paul, Minnesota have decent-sized pizza menus. Make sure you have enough copies of “Dialogue Tree Branching” for each of your students as well.