[gcompris-devel] GSoC project

[Philip Morris]

Hello Matilda,

As a Brit, may I politely ask if that activity 4, Garbage Classification,
is renamed to either "Waste Collection" or to "Rubbish Collection"?

"Garbage" is "American" and not English :-)

With best wishes
Phil



On 25 April 2012 05:15, Matilda Bernard <serah4291 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm Matilda Bernard and I've got selected for the GSoC program this year.
> This will be my first GSoC so I'm really very excited to work on GCompris.
> As part of the internship I would be working on four activities :
>
> 1) Land Safe: In this activity children would control a spaceship that
> moves on the 2D screen. They would have to land it on the specified landing
> area without crashing, by controlling the thrust using right/left/down/up
> keys. After each safe landing the gravity will change (i.e. they will land
> on another planet with a different gravitational force).
>
> 2) Place your Satellite: A rocket will be launched into space where the
> escape velocity of the rocket will be mentioned. Sliding on to the next
> screen kids will get to place their satellite in an orbit by controlling
> the speed and distance from the planet. By doing this, they
> can experimentally understand how the gravitational pull and satellite's
> inertia of motion need to be balanced for it to stay in orbit.
>
> 3) Food Classification: There would be various levels for the various food
> categories. At Each level a particular food group would be mentioned (e.g.
> Fruits) and different food items would be present. Kids will have to make
> GMuncher (a character) eat only the items belonging to that particular
> category. The importance of these food categories would be mentioned at
> each level and at the end of completion of the activity a food plate
> showing the recommended portions would also be displayed encouraging a
> balanced diet. I will be using the GNumcher activity to quite an extent for
> this one.
>
> 4) Garbage Classification: The littered garbage will have to be classified
> into first only organic and inorganic. In the next level the number of
> categories would be increased - glass, plastic, metal, etc.
>
> The link given below is just to get a little more visual idea of what I had
> in mind.
> link - http://www.slideshare.net/MatildaBernard/activitiesdoc
>
> Looking forward to feedbacks so that I improve on these activities to make
> them more relevant in a classroom.
> --
> Regards
> Matilda Bernard
>
> IRC Nick - RedAdmiral_
> http://matildabernard.blogspot.com
>
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