1. Programming Final Project
Exploring Computer Science

2. Choices
A project about your community.
A game

3. My Community Project
You will use Scratch to make a project about your community. You will use blocks like broadcast in your project. You should have at least three different pages or scenes in this project.
Decide on one positive thing that you want to highlight and one thing you want to improve about your community. Then find at least one statistic to backup your conclusions. Also include at least one personal comment/recording and one picture. Lastly, you should have at least one observation from someone else in the class about the topic – this means you will have to ask them what they think and either record it or write it down.

4. My Community Project Rubric
Points
The Content
1 title slide 5
3 scenes or more (+5) (not including the title)
15 (20?)
1 or more (+5) positive things in the community that you want to highlight
5 (10?)
1 or more (+5) things in the community that you would like to improve
Statistics to back up your conclusions 6
A personal comment/recording
A personal picture
A comment/recording from someone else in the class
The Program
Use broadcast to change each scene and title 12
Scenes only show sprites that are supposed to be in that scene 9
Program starts and restarts when green flag is clicked 10
The Presentation
Show and explain the contents of each scene in your project
Explain how each scene changes (how the program works)
Peer Grading
Extra Credit
Have the best project as voted on by peers
TOTAL:
100
Rubric

5. Chicago Data Resources
Hunger
Chicago Food Depository - ame=hunger_research
Education:
CPS Stats and Facts - glance/Pages/Stats_and_facts.aspx
CPS School Data -

6. Chicago Data Resources
Homelessness
Chicago Coalition for the Homeless - studies
All Chicago - misconceptions/facts-misconceptions
The Chicago Help Initiative - guests/
Crime:
The NeighborhoodScout® Crime Rates -
ABC News - Chicago Gang Violence: By The Numbers
Citydata.com Crime rate in Chicago - Chicago-Illinois.html

7. Game Create a game that meets the requirements in the rubric
This game must be different from Rock Paper Scissors, the “Bouncing Balls Game”, the “Dog Catches Game”, the “Monkey Game” and the “Pinball Game”.

8. Do you have?
Points
The Game
Title slide with game name and your name 5
Let the player know if they’ve won (or earned an acceptable/max. # of points…) 10
and by how much (or what that acceptable/max. number is)
Let the player know if they’ve lost (or not earned an acceptable/max. # of points)
Keep score
Have a timer
Have a help screen with directions
The game resets to the title slide when the green flag is clicked
The game stops when it is over
Game gets harder as you keep playing, i.e.more than one level…more than 2 (+5)
10 (15?)
Use broadcast to change scenes/slides
The Presentation
Description of the game explaining how it was programmed using Scratch (what blocks you used, etc.) 18
Peer Grading 12
Extra Credit
Have the best project as voted on by peers
TOTAL:
100