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…besides your title page.
Decide on one positive thing that you want to highlight and one unfortunate thing that you want to improve in your community.
Then find at least two statistics to back up each of your claims. Also include at least two personal comments or recordings and two personal pictures related to your claims.
Lastly, you should have at least two observations from one or more people in your class about your claims – this means you will have to ask them what they think and either record their responses or write them down for later transcription.

4. My Community Project Rubric
Points
The Content
1 title slide 4
3 scenes or more (+5) (not including the title)
12 (17?)
1 or more (+5) positive things in your community that you want to highlight
5 (10?)
1 or more (+5) unfortunate things in your community that you would like to improve
Statistics to back up your positive and unfortunate community claims 8
Personal comments/recordings to support your claims
Personal pictures related to your claims/community
At least 2 comments/recordings from others 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 5
Program starts and restarts when green flag is clicked
Use correct grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization, etc.
 10
The Gallery Walk
Answer the questions on the gallery walk record-keeping sheet 10
Extra Credit
See question-marked rubric elements above!
5-15
TOTAL:
100

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 Good Nutrition Game, the Timing Game, the Monkey Game and the Pinball Game.

8. Game Rubric
Points
The Game
Title slide with game name and your name…and an unobstructing, animated sprite (+3)
4 (7?)
Have a help screen with directions…and an unobstructing, animated sprite (+3)
10 (13?)
Let the player know if they’ve won (or earned an acceptable/max. # of points…) 8
and by how much (or what that acceptable/max. number is) with a separate scene 4
Let the player know if they’ve lost (or not earned an acceptable/max. # of points)
Keep score with a visible variable
Have a timer with a visible variable
The game resets to the title slide when the green flag is clicked 5
The game stops when it is over…and let’s you know it with a ‘game over’ or ‘time’s up’ scene or sprite (+5)
5 (10?)
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 6
Use correct grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization, etc.
 10
The Gallery Walk
Answer the questions on the gallery walk record-keeping sheet 10
Extra Credit
See question-marked rubric elements above!
3-16
TOTAL:
100