Sustainable+Civilization+STEM+Design+Challenge

Good day to everyone out there! I hope you are doing well. I wanted to take a few minutes to talk to you about your major project for this year, the SimCityEDU sustainable Civilization Design Challenge.

As you can tell, you will be playing SimCity for school! Your play will be assessed and you will be graded so you need to take this seriously because you will be doing some serious work. For your end of the year capstone project, you will design your own civilizations based on the knowledge you gain from playing SimCityEDU.

Your major goals in completing this project are to understand how Geography, Economics, Governance, and History work together to make a civilization what it is. You will also hone your technology and communication skills when you collaborate face to face and online with your classmates and with me. You will present your work using any number of tools like PowerPoint, VoiceThread, Prezi, Windows Movie Maker, or almost any other software or application you want. You will need to talk to me to make sure your choice is compatible with our computers, but, for the most part, anything will work. Your final versions with links to videos, files, presentations, and more will be posted to your groups Wiki page on this site.

Your final project will include many things like a name, a flag, an economic system, a system of governance that includes citizen participation and form of government, recent history of the civilization, and more. The catch is that it all has to make sense and fit together based on what you learn by playing SimCityEDU. You will learn how things interact and turn out based on the location, resources, economy, governance, and more. As with almost every assignment in this class, you will have the opportunity to re-do your game play in order to get higher scores. There will be assessments in the game and you will be able to re-do those as well. The information learned from the game is not a secret. The goal is for you to learn.

If you have any questions, you can message me on EDMODO or email me at my school email address.