Idea for constellations activity

[Johnny Jazeix]

Hi,

is the aim to extend solar_system to teach constellations too?

Le ven. 26 oct. 2018 à 23:49, Akshay Kumar <email.akshay98 at gmail.com> a
écrit :

> *Aim: *To teach students what are constellations, in a way that helps
> them remember the number of stars and features of particular constellations.
>
> *Structure: I aim to do that by showing the constellations on the screen,
> where the constellation would be rotating continuously in its defined
> pattern and the child would have to press the right key for the number of
> stars in the particular constellation. With the increasing level the
> constellations would keep on becoming more and more complex and the speed
> of rotation of the constellation will also increase.*
>
> I'm not sure to understand this part.
Where does the children type the number of stars? How do you do if two
constellations have the same number of stars?
What is the interest at accelerating the speed rotation?

 Johnny

*How children learn from it: *
>
>    - The Intromessage will tell children about what are constellations.
>    - The header in each level will have the name of the constellation.
>    - Counting the number of stars in the constellation will help children
>    remember its features, eg: Orion had 7 stars
>    - Rotation will help children spot constellations in the sky later on,
>    no matter what its orientation be.
>
> *Link to DEMO:*
>
> *https://github.com/AkshayCHD/GCompris-qt/tree/constellations
> <https://github.com/AkshayCHD/GCompris-qt/tree/constellations> *
>
> *Link to Images: *
> https://imgur.com/a/0gio4j0
>
> *Note: *The code in the demo needs alot of work, it is just a bare
> minimum to make one level work. A lot of things have been hard coded which
> would later be made more dynamic in later versions.
>
>
>
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