Technology portion of the Systems Integrated Project 2
Programming involves lots of systems (functions, if elif else, conditions, and all kinds of things we've been learning), and for the tech portion of the 2nd IP you will write a program about the Missions in Texas. This is an integrated project with Texas History.
Checkpoint 1 - Fact-Finding Mission Research Missions 1. Start your fact-finding mission online. Is the impact the Missions in Texas had on the world good or bad? Use google to find a consequence the missions had on past/future Texas, the Indians, or the Spanish. For example: "The Spanish taught the Coahuitecan Indians, who had a hunting and gathering culture, skills in farming, carpentry, and weaving to help feed and clothe the mission residents, and construct mission buildings and other structures." Source: http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/american_latino_heritage/San_Antonio_Missions_National_Historical_Park.html Form an Inference 2. Use your researched fact to form an inference to answer if the consequence of the mission was positive or negative. For example: agriculture helped feed the natives and therefore was a good consequence of the missions. Suggestion: Look at the missions from the point-of-view of the Native Americans or the Texan settlers or future Texans or the Spanish. Cite Source 3. Include a link to website with the fact (do not link to wikipedia or a google search results page. Google is a search engine, not a history website. Only link to reliable websites.) There is no wrong answer as long as it is supported with a fact from a reliable source. Make a Quiz Question 4. Next write this as a question with multiple choice answers. Here is an example (please do not copy my example and turn it in. You may wish to point out the good in the Missions (shelter, agriculture, defense, law), or find new facts I don't mention, like how the missions impacted the health of Native Americans through exposure to diseases the Spanish brought to the Americas.): |
Example:I believe the Missions had a negative impact on the Native Americans because they were built to impose Spanish rule, religion, and customs on the Native Americans so Spain could colonize the new world. This led to a loss of the Native American's culture.
Why did Spaniards build the Spanish Missions in Texas? a. to teach native americans to adopt Spanish customs, b. to control the land, thus colonizing the new world, c. to spread catholicism, d. all of the above https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/its02 My team will teach about the Missions by programming a quiz game in Python. Post to Edmodo. Checkpoint 2 - Write the Game Plan
Quiz Rubric:
AI/Game Rubric:
Checkpoint 3 - Program it! In the real-world programmers need good social skills and teamwork because they often collaborate to make a large project. Use functions to keep your code organized and easy to combine later. Choose one as a team:
If they successfully play through your program, the player should discover 4 facts about the Missions. Work in teams to decide which partner will do the beginning and which will do the ending of the program, splitting the work equally in half. Each partner should write 2 questions/facts about the mission. Place each fact in a function to keep your code organized. Use .lower() or .upper() and don’t make the user type whole word answers. Due for playtest and turn in Tues (4 days to code). Include link to the source website that opens an internet window to the website so the player can learn more and so you can give credit to your source (and so I can fact check you). Due Friday 12/11/15 |
AI Dialogue Tree Example:Text-based Adventure Flow Chart Example: |
AI From the PastJust like the AI you already built, except with the stored consciousness of a person from the past (think Jor-El talking to Superman).
The artificial intelligence should be someone who lived during the time of the Texas Missions, and wants to share with the user some information about their life. Example: Colonel James Bowie, Lieutenant Colonel William B. Travis, Santa Anna, David Crockett, a Native American, Joe an African-born slave who survived the battle of the Alamo, or any person you choose from that time period. May even be a made-up person so long as their existence is possible (not Doctor Who or his companions or anyone from another IP, or intellectual property). Rubric:
Each fact is now a subject of an AI conversation using if, elif, and else. Must have an interactive Bibliography. |
A Quiz ProgramMake a quiz program. This is basically a bunch of if and elifs with a shape calculator at the end to tell you your score.
Rubric:
http://programarcadegames.com/index.php?chapter=lab_create_a_quiz + must have an interactive Bibliography Extra credit if you use a while loop to give the player 1 extra chance when they get it wrong. HINT: Answer Code |
Text-based GameChoose a place like any location related to Texas History or Missions. For example: the mission you designed in Math class.
Welcome the player to a location in or around a Mission. Describe it to them. Give them a choice of where to go. The player makes a choice. Describe the new location. Allow the player to gain a fact about the mission. Give them a choice about what to do or where to go next. The player makes a choice. Continue so that there are 2 choices, or 4 total outcomes. At the end the player should face a final challenge of some kind. This test can be a quiz covering what they learned in each room/location, or a battle, or anything you want so long as the player's actions result in a win or lose outcome, and not luck. At the end print the bibliography (link to sources). |