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Game design

This sequence of lessons integrates game design using scratch and a Makey Makey programming board.

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Year band(s)	7-8
Content type	Lesson ideas
Format	Web page
Core and overarching concepts	Design thinking, Impact and interactions, Algorithms, Specification (decomposing problems), Implementation (programming)
Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s)	AC9TDI8P05 Design algorithms involving nested control structures and represent them using flowcharts and pseudocode AC9TDI8P06 Trace algorithms to predict output for a given input and to identify errors AC9TDI8P07 Design the user experience of a digital system AC9TDI8P08 Generate, modify, communicate and evaluate alternative designs AC9TDI8P09 Implement, modify and debug programs involving control structures and functions in a general-purpose programming language
Keywords	Think like an inventor, Game design, Scratch, Coding, Programming, Makey Makey, Algorithms
Integrated, cross-curriculum, special needs	STEM
Organisation	ESA
Copyright	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated.