We got our idea from the Science Buddies website and dove into a bunch of tutorials to learn how to use Scratch. I am happy to report that LEGOMAN took home a first place trophy in his homeschool science fair.
Here is a photo of his science board.

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| Scratch Video Game Science Project |
If you would like to download Scratch you will find it here.
Listed below are two of our favorite tutorials for Scratch.
http://scratched.media.mit.edu/resources/scratch-lessons-shall-we-learn-scratch-programming-tweens
http://learnscratch.org/video-courses/scratch-1
I hope your kids enjoy learning how to program their own video games. Let me know how it works out for you.
Blessings!
Bridget
My son is also extremely interested in the engineering side of the science fair. Our dilemma is finding out if you follow the scientific method or utilize the engineering method. Did your son write a hypothesis and follow that method, or did he "define a need" and do the engineering method? I've been looking for guidance all over the web and at his school, but have not had any luck. His teacher said that the science fair coordinator at his school is unfamiliar with the engineering guidelines. If your son wrote a hypothesis, what type of question did he ask for the creation of a video game? Mine is wanting to create a robot and do the programming to make it move. Thanks for any and all help you can give me. My e-mail addy is johannalittleton@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteMy daughter is very interested in doing this project for her science fair. Do you have clearer pictures of your sons poster board so I could have a better idea how to guide her in doing her project? You could email me at kristiano423@gmail.com Any other information on this project would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!!
ReplyDeleteHi Kristy,
ReplyDeleteI don't have any other pictures to share, but his results would be different than your daughters results. She just needs to create a game in Scratch, and then come up with a hypothesis of what she thinks will happen if she changes the game variables. Keep testing this hypothesis while changing the variables in the game. There are some great tutorials out there for creating games in Scratch. Happy Learning! :)
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