MiniGames

===**Mini-games Note: We discussed on 5/3 and decided this was a good "higher level" task rather than a minigame. I used the museum idea with keyword searching activity as the second task in the game. See final versions of Part I and Part II pages for how minigames fit in. Don't know if there is time - or need - to detail a different one? 1241450922 **===

Throughout the Kiwi Kwest there will be mini-games in each level. At each game the students complete a series of tasks and with successful completion the player gets a tip about the bird and a piece of food which makes it grow.

Level One: Who's Your Birdie
__**Evaluating hyperlinks**__ This games provides different results from Internet Inquiry that the students could have using their initial clues. The student enters a museum world: the Experincia Natural History Musuem. The show on "Endangered Animals of the South Pacific" is about to open but the main exhibit is locked. The password is the name of the bird but no one can remember it.

Can they figure it our by looking at some of the search results people have come up with?

Keyword Koruo

One person typed in Koruo, which do you think is bes//t?, Based on what you know about your new friend and information you learned about the museum// (This is added if the student gets the question wrong the first time)

First Letter K:

Character in museum: One person entered "koruo" as a search term into google. They got these results back: -Cant get tiff images to load will convrt and load later.-Greg Second Letter I: Same routine (i'll add pics later) koruo+endangered

Third letter W:Koruo+endangered+Bird

Fourth Letter: Go to google images, develop key words, try to find the a picture of the symbol or flag you have. Answer questions: What do you know about your bird? Where does the bird come from?

Once they reveal fourth letter there is an exhibit of the bird. Different links on the exihbit teach a little something about the bird. Your kiwi gets a treat and grows.

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