We want to design a video game with educational purposes.  This project helps us to apply math concepts and also learn how to present and explain the proposal of video games we design in Chinese.

1. How can students benefit from playing video games?

5th grade immersion students
Reading proficiency level: IM

90 minutes per class
10 classes for this unit

Communication

• I can identify the main idea of texts and letters.

• I can express my viewpoints regarding the advantages and disadvantages of video games in speaking and writing.  

• I can write a short passage and make a poster to explain a video game.

Connection

• I can design a video game.

• Apply scanning and skimming strategies in reading texts.

• Apply semantic and syntactic knowledge to comprehend the literal meaning of a text.

• Use graphic organizers to understand the structure of a text.

• Make inferences based on the texts.

• Summarize the information in texts.

• Express evaluative opinions about the content of a text.

Summative assessments

Assessment 1: Video Game Design Competition
Students work in pairs to create a video game that helps their learning.  Each pair writes a proposal to describe their game in Chinese and submit it to a video game competition.  

Assessment 2: Reading assessment

Students read information presented in video-game proposals.  Each student votes for their favorite one and explain why.

Reading 1: “我的世界”

Reading 2: “妈妈的信”

Reading 3 (extensive reading): “安娜练习太极拳”

(Teachers may consider to require students to write Tier 1 new words, and have students only to recognize Tier 2 and Tier 3 words.)

“我的世界”文本：

tier1:
冒险，探索，发挥，想象力，创造，想象力，资源，根
，锻炼，吸引，破坏，杀害

tier2:
独自，奇迹，创建，建造，神秘的，城堡

tier3:
地形，装备，款

“妈妈的信” 文本：

tier1: 交流，继续，专注，暴力

tier2: 浪费，兴奋，心里话，撞到，严重