Hello people!

Today I will be talking about what I have been doing inside Scimatics!  I have learnt a lot of new information about atoms and coding on Scratch.  Overall I had a great time and I hope you enjoy!  Project start mind map:

We started off by creating mind maps on what I already knew about atoms.  What are mindmaps?  Mind maps are maps that shows what I know about the subject.  It is split between examples, thoughts and questions.   Due to past projects, I somewhat knew what they were.  However, they were quite vague and I learnt a lot more by going through this process.

After creating my starting mind map, I had to build my knowledge by reading textbooks and doing workbooks.  During this period of time is when I learned a lot about the history of how we discovered atoms (Dalton, Rutherford, Bohr) and who created the first models.  It was really intriguing and got to use my knowledge in a test we did after learning all about it.  Now that we knew what atoms were, it was time to build our game.

What was our project?

I had to create a game on scratch that shows the atomic theory and kinetic atomic theory.  I first started planning my game.  I planned it so that you were a scientist trying to make the cure for Covid and had to find the atoms scattered around the map.  After finding all of them, you put it inside a box and raise the temperature up, creating the cure.

After that, I then started drafting up drawings of the different atoms I wanted to include inside my game.  I wanted to include calcium, because it helps improve bones, manganese, because it helps create connective tissues, bones and blood, and finally carbon, because it is a fundamental building block of the world.  Here is each of my drawings:

I was finally able to start coding my game.  It took me weeks of work to finally complete the game, even though there are still a lot of bugs.  I also didn’t use any tutorials and found out all the functions by myself.  If you would like to check out the game, here is the link:

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/652618293

Project end mind map:

How have I used the curricular competencies?

I have created a table explaining how I did on each of the competencies I was working on.

In conclusion, I think that I did quite well.  I learnt a lot more than I use to know, ranging from coding on scratch to the different models for atoms.  I feel like the scratch game was coded pretty decently and had an interesting idea.  Somethings I could have improved on is fixing some bugs and changing some of the models because some of them are just stick people.  Overall I had a really fun time creating my game.

Thanks for reading!

-Chris