Scottie Go! Basic Educational Version

Description

Scottie Go! Basic allows children as young as 4 years old to develop and algorithmic intuition and learn the basics of programming through a fun and interesting game.

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The game transfers Scottie’s adventures to the physical game board, making it possible to teach programming to younger children. Students can recreate and follow the adventures from the Scottie Go! for Education game and help the little alien fix his spaceship. They can also create completely new quests from scratch, using physical tokens and a deck of action cards.

Scottie Go! Basic is a one-of-its-kind educational board game (but students can assess solutions to the ready-made quests with the Edu app) and a physical quest designer for the youngest learners. During the game children can manually create, recreate, modify and complete quests, which facilitates teaching coding without the excessive use of computing devices in a structured and friendly learning environment.

No digital device is necessary to play with the Basic set, but we highly recommend using it from time to time – it might help you explain to the students how the composed programs work in the digital world. The license key will give you access to the initial 24 quests from the Scottie Go! Edu application.

Box contents of Scottie Go! Basic are made from safe – wooden and paper – but also durable materials.

The game allows you to teach classes in a variety of places – not only in the classroom. It facilitates the use of different devices and many different lesson scenarios.

Once you install the game on your device (the app requires a mobile device supported by Android, iOS or Windows OS) it doesn’t require access to the Internet, which means that lessons can take place virtually anywhere – at school desks, on a carpet or in the open air.

HOW TO PLAY:

The main quality of Scottie Go! Basic is the possibility to create, complete quests and program the main hero – Scottie – without the need for a constant use of digital devices. Students create their own quests or recreate and modify those indicated by you using 47 physical square tokens and a deck of action cards.

Every quest should be completed, which means that children have to analyze it, figure out a solution and compose a proper program – instructions for Scottie – with the cardboard coding tiles. The game can be played in three different modes of different difficulty levels:

• 1st mode: Serves as an introduction to the world of coding and focuses on recreating and completing quests from the teacher’s guide (included in the set) in suggested order. In this mode children will be gradually introduced to the action of coding.
• 2nd mode: In this mode you and your students can start modifying the ready-made quests with action cards. You can choose the quests as you please.
• 3rd mode: Serves as the open game mode – you and your students can create quests from scratch! It is best to use it with well-experienced Scottie Go! players.

KEY BENEFITS:

Scottie Go! Basic assists you in presenting and explaining coding problems in an easy and enjoyable way:

• During the game children learn how to build and use algorithms.
• Playing Scottie Go! Basic creates an environment which facilitates teamwork, moderated by a teacher.
• During the game children can learn programming also through movement and physical activities.
• The coding tiles from this game have been designed to appeal to younger children – they are more colorful and larger than the standard tiles. They are easier for students to use and differentiate between them and the programming concepts they symbolize.
• The programming concepts from this game cover most of the programming concepts included in , including loops, parameters or basic instructions.
• Students can practice mathematical reasoning and basic mathematical skills, e.g. step counting.
• The process of creating and completing the quests allows children to train creative, critical and logical thinking.
• Thanks to Scottie Go! Basic you can engage your students in fun, creative and collaborative learning, based on gamification and multi-sensory approach.

By purchasing Scottie Go! Basic teachers get access to a variety of teaching aids and additional materials:

• Teacher’s Guide with solutions to all quests from the game.
• A set of all quests and quest boards, which can be used as a teaching aid during classes.
• Graphic materials, including worksheets.
• Sample curriculum and lesson scenarios including movement games and methodological guidelines.
• Ideas for fun and interesting educational activities.
• Information about certification and networking in Scottie Go! Kindergarten Clubs.

BOX CONTENTS:

• 53 coding blocks
• license code
• 42 tokens
• 52 challenge cards

ABOUT THE APP:

The purchase of Scottie Go! Basic grants teachers access to the initial 24 quests from the Scottie Go! Edu app. The app tells students which quest to complete and assesses if the composed programs are optimized, and solve the given quest correctly. A student selects an unlocked quest and composes a program – solution – with cardboard coding tiles, by placing them on the board in a given sequence. Next, they scan the program with a smartphone or a tablet by taking a photo or recording a video.

Scottie executes instructions from the scanned coding tiles on the device’s screen. If the program was composed properly, the app will award the student with 3 stars and allow them to move on to the next quest. If something is not right – e.g. the instructions do not solve the quest properly or the program could be shorter – they will be awarded with 1 or 2 stars, or will be asked to complete the same quest once again.